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In reply to the discussion: Can We Stop Saying "Pam Geller Has Free Speech?" [View all]Edit history
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someone decides that you can't wear the color green and will become violent if you do.
samsingh
May 2015
#28
beheading and shooting people is far more cruel than anything you've described
samsingh
May 2015
#73
Progressive nations like Britain are doing just fine without those amendments n/t
951-Riverside
May 2015
#47
at least one of the would be killers was known to be in contact with terrorists
samsingh
May 2015
#158
Yakno, Some day we will be able to ARREST people for saying stuff we don't like!
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#157
At the very least this incident should put her 'Freedom Defense Initiative' in a high risk category
tanyev
May 2015
#4
she hasn't or threatened to kill anyone. how is she in the same league as those disgusting
samsingh
May 2015
#61
because in the United States and Europe, "Islam" is heavily racialized, particularly by islamophobes
Scootaloo
May 2015
#43
islamists have beheaded thousands of people in the middle east. i don't have any support for that
samsingh
May 2015
#72
don't try to say i'm supporting geller. i hate atlas. your name calling is interesting and
samsingh
May 2015
#82
You have your facts wrong. In the United States for instance 30% of Muslims are whites.
totodeinhere
May 2015
#104
Because it nearly always goes hand in hand with prejudice against scary evil brown people.
nomorenomore08
May 2015
#109
should we link to islamist fundamentalist sites and isis? i would feel very dirty
samsingh
May 2015
#50
shooting people up in the name of a religion may prove the 'those' comments to have some truth
samsingh
May 2015
#26
What broadbrush? Implying that Muslims, as a group, are responsible for these atrocities.
nomorenomore08
May 2015
#112
So the other 80-85% should be lumped in with the terrorists and radicals, and treated accordingly?
nomorenomore08
May 2015
#114
For one thing, speaking out against extremism is punishable by death in some places.
nomorenomore08
May 2015
#118
The poster mentioned women's voting. Either it's allowed in Muslim countries or it is not. Facts
WinkyDink
May 2015
#126
It's wrong. If appears to not understand what the word 'freedom' means, and what 'free speech'
muriel_volestrangler
May 2015
#23
so what if it was? Our right to free speech is not limited to "non hate speech".
Warren Stupidity
May 2015
#127
Much the same can be said of the Christian Bible. People were executed for "blasphemy" and "sodomy"
nomorenomore08
May 2015
#119
I think you underestimate the number of Christians who still take the Bible literally (or claim to).
nomorenomore08
May 2015
#151
I'm fairly certain that what the Founders were after was a protection from a tyrannical government.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
May 2015
#132
no. Freedom of speech - aka "free speech" is the exact language used to describe this right.
Warren Stupidity
May 2015
#123
In case any body is curious, this was the winning cartoon: (warning-depiction of Mohammed)
EX500rider
May 2015
#142
Hatespeech is absolutely constitutionally protected,and I'm gonna engage in hate speech in this post
Shoulders of Giants
May 2015
#146