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Goodheart

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2. This is America

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sat Aug 12, 2017, 03:29 PM

Aug 2017

It's a slippery slope to start banning speech that doesn't pose a direct and imminent danger to someone.

A free society means we have to allow those with whom we might disagree.

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In Germany, it is a criminal offense to give a Nazi salute or invoke Nazi slogan. [View all] Stinky The Clown Aug 2017 OP

Do you want it outlawed? LittleBlue Aug 2017 #1

This is more important than the 1st Amendment. FiveGoodMen Aug 2017 #3

So what would you do? LittleBlue Aug 2017 #5

Yup. That's tougher. I don't know what we can realistically do (quickly anyway) FiveGoodMen Aug 2017 #7

If you went so far as to "destroy" them LittleBlue Aug 2017 #11

I hear you... FiveGoodMen Aug 2017 #12

This is America Goodheart Aug 2017 #2

Must allow them to kill us huh? FiveGoodMen Aug 2017 #4

Speech isn't killing us. At the moment it's Dodge Chargers. NutmegYankee Aug 2017 #6

No doubt with the help of a driver fired up by hateful white nationalists speeches. MrsCoffee Aug 2017 #8

45 himself incites this kind of violence at his rallies too! ananda Aug 2017 #9

And even in non-free speech locations this type of event happens NutmegYankee Aug 2017 #10