Court orders upstate woman to remove Confederate flag or risk custody of multi racial child

[msfiddlestix]

165. Not even close.

I see the right to free speech similarly to the way I see the 2nd Amendment as well as the other part of the 1st Amendment.

There are limits to my right to free speech when it violates the safety of others. Likewise, Freedom of Religion doesn't mean Freedom to Impose Religion and their edits on me in the Public Fora. 2nd Amendment's right to bear arms doesn't mean the right to own and carry Weapons of War.

There are limitations, lines that shouldn't be considered ok to cross.

When my right to anything I want to say is essentially promoting hate, and by implication promoting violence is a line we should never embrace IF we want to live in a cohesive, democratic governed (small d) society.

I do. I do not want to hear Preachers on my tv fomenting lies and hate against any of our American communities, because it clearly promotes, embraces, and endorses violence against targeted groups. The same with Political Office holders, the Military and so on.

Any lesson drawn from the last administration, (which we are still dealing with the wreckage) should be the loud resounding bell of much needed reform through our laws, as well as socially.


I am not a fan of "thought policing" or identity politics, never have been. That has it's own form of tyranny. But that doesn't mean reforms are not desperately needed, and we need to give a hard look with regard to the old tropes of "free speech" as well as other aspects of the First Amendment.

The last Administration lives in my head still to this day, because his followers are hell bent in keeping Trumpism alive and well for the present time and enduring future. THAT has clearly led to a most fascists, authoritarian form of TYRANNY we've ever lived through and we're still recovering from this very moment.

If you didn't/don't feel the insurrectionists are domestic terrorists, then we are miles and miles apart from understanding each other.