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In reply to the discussion: Court orders upstate woman to remove Confederate flag or risk custody of multi racial child [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)88. No problem
But you actually explained it really well! I just elaborated.
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Court orders upstate woman to remove Confederate flag or risk custody of multi racial child [View all]
Demovictory9
May 2021
OP
Did you know that children have rights too? They're not like pets, which are considered property.
Towlie
May 2021
#9
ok. I'm wrong. U.S. Citizens are free to hate and teach their children to hate
msfiddlestix
May 2021
#129
Thank you as well for fighting the good fight in this thread and others. I enjoy your posts.
Jedi Guy
May 2021
#143
Your tarnished prism is no excuse for your embrace of tyranny disguised as virtue.
Jedi Guy
May 2021
#138
Yes, tyranny. Muzzling other people because you don't like their views is tyranny, full stop.
Jedi Guy
May 2021
#151
Speech that promotes violence is already proscribed and not protected by the First Amendment.
Jedi Guy
May 2021
#176
It's worked out great so far for me in my 74 years of being on planet Earth.
MarineCombatEngineer
May 2021
#137
Normal Americans don't want shit like that displayed in their neighborhood. No right is absolute. nt
Progressive Jones
May 2021
#13
If the child were Jewish and they had a swastika painted on the front door, would you think
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#15
You, or the state, don't get to decide what is or isn't hate speech, that's the whole point.
BGBD
May 2021
#35
This is exactly what the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled on.
MarineCombatEngineer
May 2021
#92
This ruling will have absolutely no impact on this case for more than one reason
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#104
This is false, the state ... DOES ... get to decided what hate speech is and does it when there's
uponit7771
May 2021
#94
... I did and in the face of violence against a minority the state **CAN** deem speech ...
uponit7771
May 2021
#97
Not trying to tell you what to do. Just trying to educate you about law you seem not to understand
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#115
Some folks here are revealing a lot more about their attitudes on race than they realize
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#108
"I'm not allowed to keep my child if somebody doesn't like my speech? Whoa!"
RegularJam
May 2021
#63
Then point me to them taking her child. The rock is still there, from what we know.
RegularJam
May 2021
#68
It's always amusing to watch non-lawyers with no training in legal or constitutional interpretation
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#72
But the jump to defend the right to display the Confederate flag is very telling
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#78
I'm confident that you are aware freedom of speech has more than two elements.
RegularJam
May 2021
#66
Yeah and it is not about free speech either...people don't understand what free speech means.
Demsrule86
May 2021
#146
The First Amendment is not a primary consideration in child custody cases
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#160
I'm a grown woman, and the sight of Confederate flag provokes a visceral reaction of fear in me
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#80
If this child were half Jewish, descended from Holocaust survivors and this were a swastika
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#51
If a black man "calling his son that" put himself in a position he is standing in front of...
Hassin Bin Sober
May 2021
#53
Is that true? I'm not aware of any law that says Confederate flags are hate speech
Takket
May 2021
#34
No law states that any particular acts, symbols, or words are hate speech
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#43
Thank you for helping to articulate what I failed miserably to accomplish.
msfiddlestix
May 2021
#86
You may care about the First Amendment, but you don't seem to understand it
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#32
Supporting NAMBLA is also protected speech. You gonna turn a kid over to a NAMBLA supporter?
Hassin Bin Sober
May 2021
#100
If a court determines that exposing the child to those comments is harmful to them
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#167
Not true...they can't arrest her but they can factor it into a custody hearing.
Demsrule86
May 2021
#147
I'm pretty much a First Amendment absolutist except when it comes to swastikas & the Loser's Flag
GoneOffShore
May 2021
#16