3 ms·
>Unless people are inciting violence or organizing systematic discrimination, The whole purpose of the first and second amendments are so that - when, not if -
by NaturalPhallacy 5y ago
>Unless people are inciting violence or organizing systematic discrimination,
The whole purpose of the first and second amendments are so that - when, not if - our own government becomes tyrannical we can organize, and violently overthrow it.
Inciting violence (particularly against the government) is literally the whole point of the first two.
The US government is not supposed to rule, it's supposed to serve. A lot of people seem to have forgotten that. It's not only our right, specifically protected by the Bill of Rights, it's our duty and we can't even begin to do that if "inciting violence" is prohibited speech.
>It’s a slippery slope to give a subset of people control over what is allowed to be said.
The issue isn't even control, it's that there exists no person or organization that can be trusted with this power.