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In reply to the discussion: Man faces hate crime charge in Scotland over dog's 'Nazi salute' [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)19. well, the 1st Amendment protects it just the same.
You dont have to like it, but the principle that protects the worst speech also protects the best and most important.
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Your film, which Jewish groups did not find offensive, makes a good point...
Jeffersons Ghost
May 2016
#3
The Scottish police occasionally send out tweets reminding people not to post stuff that's "hurtful"
Nye Bevan
May 2016
#5
This is exactly why we don't, can't, and shouldn't outlaw "hate speech".
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#13
Don't say that too loudly, or our resident authoritarians will call you a racist or something.
NutmegYankee
May 2016
#14
1st Amendment threads can get pretty fucking depressing around here, I agree.
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#15
So you think its OK to put nooses around statues of black people,cry "fire" in a crowded theater,
progree
May 2016
#35
"shouting fire in a crowded theater" is perhaps the most torturously overused metaphor in existence
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#52
And Holmes made that analogy to justify upholding the arrests of antiwar protesters.
NYC Liberal
May 2016
#59
How about a noose around the statue of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi?
progree
May 2016
#20
How about "fuck the bitches" or "fuck Hillary"?? If done to annoy one's girlfriend, its OK, right?
progree
May 2016
#17
It's everything in subjectively determining how much of an asshole the person saying the stuff is.
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#51
It was in Scotland, where there isn't constitutional protection to "Gas the Jews" speech
progree
May 2016
#27
I doubt anyone could be prosecuted for saying "gas the Jews" in the United States.
Nye Bevan
May 2016
#42
Just be careful not to post anything "hurtful" and the police won't pay you a visit.
Nye Bevan
May 2016
#49
It protects the most unpopular or offensive opinions and speech, because they understood that
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#68