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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 28 Aug 2017

    .@conor64 explains the shortsightedness of the far left's attack on free speechhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/the-most-shortsighted-attack-on-free-speech-in-modern-history/537468/?utm_source=twb …

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      2. Where the Tweets have no name‏ @andrewthesmart 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @conor64

        Would you defend letting an ISIS parade of Jeeps with 50mm machine guns mounted in the back roll down Main Street? If they were "peaceful"?

        6 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @andrewthesmart @sapinker

        Note: Both 50mm machine guns and providing material support to ISIS are illegal.

        3 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
      4. Where the Tweets have no name‏ @andrewthesmart 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @conor64 @sapinker

        but providing material support to Nazis is not?!?

        3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Steven Porter‏ @reporterporter 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @andrewthesmart @conor64 @sapinker

        Oddly, federal law does seem to distinguish between foreign & domestic terrorist orgs on "material support": https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R41333.pdf …

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      6. Steven Porter‏ @reporterporter 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @reporterporter @andrewthesmart and

        So if we're talking domestic neo-Nazis & foreign ISIS fighters, then it would seem there's a key difference in the "material support" laws.

        0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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      2. Vivek Sriram‏ @sriramsf 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @conor64

        But it was the ACLU that got the tiki-torch scumbags their permit for Charlottesville. Minorities are (rightfully) freaked out by Klan-thugs

        3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Vivek Sriram‏ @sriramsf 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sriramsf @conor64

        I grew up protesting Duke at LSU in '90-'91. Im happy to let these dirtbags freely clown themselves publicly. They die in the light.

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      2. MrSecular‏ @GodsaPox 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @conor64

        So perplexing that this attack on fundamental liberty is so pervasive on the left. They have truly lost their moral way on so many issues.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Charles Norton‏ @CharlesCNorton 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @GodsaPox @sapinker @conor64

        It appears to be perplexing because anti-free speech attitudes are not truly pervasive on the left, & are instead held by vocal minority.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. MrSecular‏ @GodsaPox 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @CharlesCNorton @sapinker @conor64

        When I see the majority of the liberal MSM actually start criticizing Antifa instead of lionizing them, you'll have a point.

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      1. Erik Moeller‏ @xirzon 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @conor64

        Agree for the most part. However, armed gatherings are a unique category, as this analysis makes very clear:http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/08/the_first_and_second_amendments_clashed_in_charlottesville_the_guns_won.html …

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      2. nr1woman  🦋‏ @nr1woman 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @conor64

        It's pretty sad that this has to be explained to college students.

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      2. Doc Adrienne Watson‏ @adriennePwatson 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @conor64

        An exception can be made for hate speech defined in relation to constitutional imperatives. It's what we try to do in SA 🇿🇦.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. ComradeSnake‏ @ComradeSnake 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @adriennePwatson @sapinker @conor64

        No it can't. The US Supreme Court has 100 years of rulings on this topic. "Hate Speech" has no legal meaning. It never will.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Troy Blackford‏ @TBlackford3 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @conor64

        My favorite non-fiction author tweeting a great article by my favorite journalist.

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      2. Shitasupremecourtjusticesayswhenhe'sdrunk‏ @IsaywhenIm 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @conor64

        There's a difference between free speech and being entitled to the use of public resources as a platform.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Sohan Dsouza‏ @SohanDsouza 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @IsaywhenIm @sapinker @conor64

        Um, that IS free speech. Public spaces belong to all, and the state has to be viewpoint-neutral in coordinating and protecting their use.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Shitasupremecourtjusticesayswhenhe'sdrunk‏ @IsaywhenIm 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @SohanDsouza @sapinker @conor64

        So anyone should have the right to be paid to speak at a university? Am I entitled to an auditorium to give a lecture on whatever I want?

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Sohan Dsouza‏ @SohanDsouza 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @IsaywhenIm @sapinker @conor64

        If it's a public university, and a student group invites you and funds you, yes, you do.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Shitasupremecourtjusticesayswhenhe'sdrunk‏ @IsaywhenIm 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @SohanDsouza @sapinker @conor64

        Even a racist or pseudo intellectual group (flat earthers/creationists).

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Sohan Dsouza‏ @SohanDsouza 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @IsaywhenIm @sapinker @conor64

        Yup.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Sohan Dsouza‏ @SohanDsouza 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @SohanDsouza @sapinker @conor64

        How else do you think religious groups bring speakers to campus?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      9. Shitasupremecourtjusticesayswhenhe'sdrunk‏ @IsaywhenIm 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @SohanDsouza @sapinker @conor64

        Colleges have theology programs. They don't have flat earth programs.

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