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theres no absolute free speech in the US. There are most certainly plenty of things you cannot say and protestors are often violently silenced by police and rio

theres no absolute free speech in the US. There are most certainly plenty of things you cannot say and protestors are often violently silenced by police and riot squads. Then the media upholds its end of the bargain by heavily re-enforcing the State Dept. position while besmirching the message of the protestors and misrepresenting them in any and every way imaginable. You can say a lot of awful shit, but you really can't openly oppose the State with any real threat of power. I mean, I wouldn't really call the US admitting to assassinating Malcom X, MLK, among others, the pinnacle of free speech... all theses people did was speak out against injustices that they observed... and that's just one incident. This happens everyday.

bad_user 2y ago
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- lossolo 2y ago
  You can't criticize Israel or you will get punished by government in US. Where is your freedom of speech in this case? "The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to revive a newspaper's challenge on free speech grounds to an Arkansas law requiring state government contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel, a policy the publication's lawyers called a threat to a constitutionally protected form of collective protest." [1] 1. https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-spurns-challenge-arkansas-law-against-contractors-boycotting-2023-02-21/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-spurns-challe... 2. https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boyco...
  - aguaviva 2y ago
    You can't criticize Israel or you will get punished by government in US. This is hyperbolic and obviously false. Brain-dead and authoritarian though the anti-BDS legislation is -- it is ultimately a corner case with very narrow applicability. On the whole, you are perfectly free to criticize Israel in the U.S., and of course countless people have been doing just that for multiple decades.
- aguaviva 2y ago
  Protestors in the U.S. are frequently beaten, illegally detained and have toxic chemicals deployed against them in the streets (or are otherwise menaced and harassed by police) -- regardless of whether they are doing those things. This has been going on for decades, but should be especially obvious to you if you've been following the news in the past 4.5 years.
- krisboyz781 2y ago
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lossolo 2y ago
You can't criticize Israel or you will get punished by government in US. Where is your freedom of speech in this case? "The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to revive a newspaper's challenge on free speech grounds to an Arkansas law requiring state government contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel, a policy the publication's lawyers called a threat to a constitutionally protected form of collective protest." [1] 1. https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-spurns-challenge-arkansas-law-against-contractors-boycotting-2023-02-21/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-spurns-challe... 2. https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boyco...
- aguaviva 2y ago
  You can't criticize Israel or you will get punished by government in US. This is hyperbolic and obviously false. Brain-dead and authoritarian though the anti-BDS legislation is -- it is ultimately a corner case with very narrow applicability. On the whole, you are perfectly free to criticize Israel in the U.S., and of course countless people have been doing just that for multiple decades.
aguaviva 2y ago
Protestors in the U.S. are frequently beaten, illegally detained and have toxic chemicals deployed against them in the streets (or are otherwise menaced and harassed by police) -- regardless of whether they are doing those things. This has been going on for decades, but should be especially obvious to you if you've been following the news in the past 4.5 years.
krisboyz781 2y ago
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