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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)51. It's everything in subjectively determining how much of an asshole the person saying the stuff is.
But as a legal standard for determining when the government should be allowed to censor speech, it is doomed to failure.
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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