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Laws should evolve to serve the people. If monsters like this are allowed to say, 'But it's legal,' it should not be legal. People like Nix are much worse than
by grasshopperpurp 10y ago
Laws should evolve to serve the people. If monsters like this are allowed to say, 'But it's legal,' it should not be legal. People like Nix are much worse than some racist frat boys, but I'm reminded of this:
"The way we interpret the First Amendment need not be simplistic and empty of nuance, and was not always so. The Supreme Court unanimously held over eighty years ago that “those words which by their very utterance inflict injury … are no essential part of any exposition of ideas.” And in 1952 the Court upheld an Illinois statute punishing “false or malicious defamation of racial and religious groups.” These rulings, while never officially reversed, have shrunk to historical trinkets. But they mark a range of the possible, where one can be a staunch defender of full-throated discourse but still recognize the difference between dialogue and vomitus."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/the-limits-of-free-speech/387718/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/the-lim...
- gpawl 10y agoAnd criticizing the President used to be a criminal offense. Would you like the Republican-majority Congress to pass a new Alien and Sedition Act?