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38. The people guilty are the people who shot people with guns.
Sat May 9, 2015, 10:04 AM
May 2015

Cartoons and religions are not guilty. They are merely ideas.

k&r beam me up scottie May 2015 #1
I oppose criminalizing hate speech, but cali May 2015 #2
Should the RCC/Westboro Baptists be held responsible for anti-lgbt hate crimes? beam me up scottie May 2015 #3
As you know, any mention of Phelps or the Pope sends this crew packing, she will never even try Bluenorthwest May 2015 #33
If a muslim kills someone and says the Koran commanded it would you ban the Koran CBGLuthier May 2015 #4
Every power is double-edged. True Blue Door May 2015 #5
Using your logic they should be rounding up the clerics and other Islamic scholars Lee-Lee May 2015 #27
The people guilty are the people who shot people with guns. Shoulders of Giants May 2015 #38
Imminence. Incitement isn't what many are thinking it is. n/t X_Digger May 2015 #34
Do you consider being free to use a city's bus service to promote hate "censorship"? Scootaloo May 2015 #6
Everyone has an equal right to the public space. True Blue Door May 2015 #7
Do you believe being free to put ads on buses constitutes censorship, or not? Scootaloo May 2015 #8
Only if the limits are imposed by law and are politically selective. True Blue Door May 2015 #10
So no, Gellar is not being censored. Scootaloo May 2015 #11
. beam me up scottie May 2015 #13
No one is being censored there, are they? No Free speech is being infringed, is it? Scootaloo May 2015 #15
I posted a link to an op re: banning hate speech so you'd know what inspired the op. beam me up scottie May 2015 #16
In response to me asking where someone was being censored Scootaloo May 2015 #18
No, they're free to express their extremely wrong-headed ideas about the 1st Amendment. Warren DeMontague May 2015 #20
I didn't alert on that op, did you? beam me up scottie May 2015 #21
No, not me. Warren DeMontague May 2015 #24
Agreed. Like people who imagine censorship where there is none Scootaloo May 2015 #25
The topic of criminalizing hate speech was raised earlier. True Blue Door May 2015 #14
"As for your Putin-esque attempts to Godwinize liberalism" Scootaloo May 2015 #17
Floating the specter of Nazism doesn't work when the main reason it failed True Blue Door May 2015 #26
You're the one raising naziism first off Scootaloo May 2015 #29
I mentioned Nazism to deflate it as an argument I knew someone like you would raise. True Blue Door May 2015 #32
Great post about the Weimar constitution Pooka Fey May 2015 #39
Scholars have written volumes on the subject, there are hours of documentary footage available Pooka Fey May 2015 #37
I'm aware of the history, and of people's attempts to rewrite it for ideological purposes. True Blue Door May 2015 #41
Let me analyse just one sentence of your above post, because I only have 45 minutes. Pooka Fey May 2015 #42
France had a resistance movement. Germany had a few random people defying Hitler True Blue Door May 2015 #44
Stating that a German Resistance existed does in NO WAY condone or excuse the evil of the 3rd Reich Pooka Fey May 2015 #45
The scholarship on the subject is massive because the need to find humanizing details True Blue Door May 2015 #47
Fine...however without consequences hate speeches lead into actions. vaberella May 2015 #9
All speech has consequences. Not all speech leads to actions. True Blue Door May 2015 #12
I'm not convinced the metro bus system couldnt have other options for regulating ads than Warren DeMontague May 2015 #19
But is it censorship to have those ads? Scootaloo May 2015 #22
Oh ffs. Warren DeMontague May 2015 #23
I try to restrain my pissed-offness for things that are actually happening Scootaloo May 2015 #28
I didn't say she was being censored. Neither did the OP. Warren DeMontague May 2015 #30
Is it? Scootaloo May 2015 #31
I watched Straight Religious people stage hundreds and hundreds of attacks on LGBT funerals while Bluenorthwest May 2015 #36
It's different because it's offensive to religious people, Blue. beam me up scottie May 2015 #46
Uh, hardly, dude. Warren DeMontague May 2015 #43
the sake of argument ellennelle May 2015 #35
I'm aware that rational argument is insufficient, but it is definitely indispensable. True Blue Door May 2015 #40
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