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comment by ecib
ecib  ·  4441 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Repeat after me: speech is protected in the US...

Whatever you say man. I just think it's a little odd that you trumpet the Constitution so much, then turn around and call free speech that is critical of a bigot infringement. I have to confess that your convoluted logic stating that your fear of the government restricting his speech IN THE FUTURE through a new law passed in reaction due to the support of angry protestors means that the speech of his detractors magically qualifies as infringing under the first Amendment in the present....I dunno. Not making sense to me. At all. And I didn't call you a bigot, -it struck me as quite strange I confess. You seem to be taking on position that you fear the government would adopt in response, -labeling perfectly legal and Constitutionally protected speech as something that is not protected and runs afoul of the Constitution.





cliffelam  ·  4441 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't call it that. I said they did.

ecib  ·  4441 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I didn't call it that. I said they did.

I know. Am I missing something here? :) I'm saying that you are labeling their speech in reaction to his speech as infringing:

    Calling it "hate speech" is infringing...
cliffelam  ·  4441 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I am saying, and think I have said, that the purpose of their speech is not speech, it is to restrict the doofus's speech. And that is infringing.

cgod  ·  4440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's legal to say we should ship all the blacks back to Africa, an action which if taken would totally be contrary to all kinds of rights. It's legal to say the chair hanging racist should face the death penalty for what he is has done, what would be unconstitutional is to execute him for it. I don't think you understand the first amendment or you have a dog in this fight that doesn't care about the constitution.