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user-inactivated  ·  2443 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Looks like Charlotesville is really starting to backfire for White Power groups

GOOD. In my mind if you wave the flag of people who slaughtered millions and waged war on the USA, you should have bad things happen to you. Free speech and all, sure. But Free Speech is not free from consequence. Waving a NAZI flag, a Confederate battle flag, a Soviet flag, an anarchist flag should have real world consequences.

And I say that as a guy who wants my racists loud and proud and out in the open. firstly, it reminds some of my weaker willed liberal friends that these people exist and there are still battles to fight. Secondly so that I know who these idiots are so I can not interact with them other than to mock them.





steve  ·  2443 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Free Speech is not free from consequence

this.... so much...

tacocat  ·  2442 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The right seems to have found a creative way to abuse something that is a bit unique to this country and when the First Amendment was written I'm pretty sure it was unheard of.

Yeah, you guys have freedom of speech but everyone telling you to shut the fuck up is using the same right to attempt to shut you down.