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> namedly when said speech is inciting racial hatred. There is no such limit in the US.

mschuster91 8y ago
> There is no such limit in the US. ...which makes the US fairly unique in the world. Nearly all other developed countries have developed laws to combat hate speech. With the result being that the US is probably the only country in the world where people wearing swastika flags and doing the Hitler salute will be defended by ordinary citizens. 400k US citizens died in WW2 fighting the Nazi regime and in 2018 open Nazis can carry the swastika flag in the US. What a disgrace.
- sheepmullet 8y ago
  > 400k US citizens died in WW2 fighting the Nazi regime and in 2018 open Nazis can carry the swastika flag in the US. What a disgrace. We have seen an equally horrific history with communism. Can we at least agree we should remove all communists and their supporters from all government positions?
- deathanatos 8y ago
  We (or, I hope, some of us) still believe in the same values. Murder and genocide are not condoned, nor do we want a repeat of what happened in WW2. Free speech is the protected value. That my countryman might choose to use that freedom poorly is his choice, but that's part of it: he's free to choose. Unorthodox ideas might be the next freedom or civil rights movement, or they might just be absolute garbage; it isn't the government's place to pick or choose what ideas get expressed. The old quote applies, > I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. That said, I don't see why a private enterprise should be forced to do business with someone unwillingly. (Again, if this were the government, I'd have a very different opinion.) As for some of the more egregious things he's done, such as claiming Sandy Hook was a hoax, > six families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as well as an FBI agent who responded to the attack filed a defamation lawsuit against Jones for his role in spreading conspiracy theories about the shooting. This is the proper forum for this to occur in, and hopefully justice will be done.

> There is no such limit in the US. ...which makes the US fairly unique in the world. Nearly all other developed countries have developed laws to combat hate speech. With the result being that the US is probably the only country in the world where people wearing swastika flags and doing the Hitler salute will be defended by ordinary citizens. 400k US citizens died in WW2 fighting the Nazi regime and in 2018 open Nazis can carry the swastika flag in the US. What a disgrace.

sheepmullet 8y ago
> 400k US citizens died in WW2 fighting the Nazi regime and in 2018 open Nazis can carry the swastika flag in the US. What a disgrace. We have seen an equally horrific history with communism. Can we at least agree we should remove all communists and their supporters from all government positions?
deathanatos 8y ago
We (or, I hope, some of us) still believe in the same values. Murder and genocide are not condoned, nor do we want a repeat of what happened in WW2. Free speech is the protected value. That my countryman might choose to use that freedom poorly is his choice, but that's part of it: he's free to choose. Unorthodox ideas might be the next freedom or civil rights movement, or they might just be absolute garbage; it isn't the government's place to pick or choose what ideas get expressed. The old quote applies, > I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. That said, I don't see why a private enterprise should be forced to do business with someone unwillingly. (Again, if this were the government, I'd have a very different opinion.) As for some of the more egregious things he's done, such as claiming Sandy Hook was a hoax, > six families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as well as an FBI agent who responded to the attack filed a defamation lawsuit against Jones for his role in spreading conspiracy theories about the shooting. This is the proper forum for this to occur in, and hopefully justice will be done.