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It does appear to me that America and the rest of the West are diverging on this issue. We do not criminally prosecute people for political speech. Even speech
by chitowneats 4y ago
It does appear to me that America and the rest of the West are diverging on this issue. We do not criminally prosecute people for political speech. Even speech most of us find abhorrent. We draw the line at inciting violence.
- moistly 4y agoAnd look where that’s gotten you.
- chitowneats 4y ago
- moistly 4y agoDidn’t think I’d have to spell it out, but you’ve got Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, and endless funding from the Koch brothers who were literally raised by a Nazi nanny, all abusing “free speech” to purposefully—and successfully!—destroy your nation. Free speech absolutism or a functional society: you can pick only one, not both.
- moistly 4y agoI don’t think chitowneats message deserved flagging, nor deletion.
- fein 4y agoWe don't put 93 year old women in prison for saying Auschwitz was a work camp, so wherever "we" are is at least not that bad.