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Warpy

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Fri Apr-03-09 03:16 PM
Response to Reply #25

28. Does the first amendment allow us to yell "FIRE"

in a crowded theater?

The effect of hate radio has been clear for a very long time. It's what started the massacres in Bosnia and Rwanda. It was Hitler's tool to whip up rage against the Jews.

While I respect the first amendment rights of a lot of people whose ideas I utterly despise, I also recognize that whipping up hatred against one's fellow countrymen for any reason, religious, political or ethnic, should be discouraged.

That hate has gotten acted upon too many times and too many places.

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