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alc

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1. 1st amendment applies to speech you disagree with

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 01:26 PM

Jun 2015

If you only defend speech you agree with, you really aren't for the 1st amendment. And when a course case finds that speech you don't like can be suppressed, it's a precedent to be used against speech you do like with in the future. If you want to be a major defender of speech you are for, you also have to defend speech you are against - it's not ok to just sit on the sidelines in those cases because you disagree with the speech.

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A history of the ACLU defending the Confederate flag, the tea party, the KKK and Rush Limbaugh [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 OP

1st amendment applies to speech you disagree with alc Jun 2015 #1

Except a government flag flying is not free speech, it is conduct. And immoral conduct if it is the Dixie Swastika Fred Sanders Jun 2015 #2

they don't need to win every case alc Jun 2015 #3

Confederate Flag Dale1000 Jun 2015 #4

Stuff like this is why I can't support the ACLU. ncjustice80 Jun 2015 #5

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2015 #6