Hate groups: I will not defend your right to free speech

[MrScorpio]

22. Defending hate speech is like defending someone's right to scream "fire" in a crowded theater

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...When there's no fire at all.

When defending the free speech of white supremacists, one is defending their expressed intention to dehumanize other people. The purpose of dehumanization is to marginalize, oppress and even murder others simply because they're part of the non-white and/or non-Christian minority.

White supremacists are intent on convincing the white majority that it's in their best interests to do that very thing. They're appealing to fear and hatred of the other. It really doesn't take all that much to create biases and for mobs especially to act on those biases. That's what these people stand for, it would be naive to think otherwise.

So-called free speech has limits. That's an established legal precedent, encoded in our courts of law. Inciting to riot is not protected speech, and thus inciting to oppress and murder black people and Jews should not be protected either.

If we're supposed to be a decent, egalitarian society, we should set a standard in which the expressed intention to dehumanize, oppress and murder people because of their identity is completely unacceptable.

Otherwise, it's only a matter of time before that very thing happens here again and again.