JohnnyHolmes
Banned
Boo Hoo.
OT: American Politics
- Thread starter MindzEye
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Aberdeen
Well-known member
I think it's just fun having such an obvious moment in time where he's too cowardice to own up to the truth. So he falls back on the free speech malarkey.
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MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
I didn't suggest that the problems were equal, but there's no arguing that the political left isn't generating a pile of rubbish on their own. When a right wing speakers can't show their face around a US college campus for fear of being mobbed, there's a problem in accepting the existence of differing opinions, even when those opinions suck shit. There's a fine line between a legal protest and a dangerous mob, the modern left has passed that line on a number of occasions just in campus protests over the last 18-24 months.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
Actually, it really does. The rights to free speech in the US are not absolute. I've tried to explain to you a few times that you have a poor grasp of the concept in actual practice and you continue to not listen.
Incitement, Libel/Slander, Obscenity, "Fighting Words"...all categories of speech of that are not protected. Running around shouting racial epithets is not protected speech.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
Johnny doesn't understand free speech.
hockeylover
Well-known member
You support their cause? Seriously?
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
I think he's talking about BLM
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
I think it goes beyond electoral strategy-- members of the GOP are genuinely appalled by these Neo Nazis.
Habsy
Yes, I'm kidding people.
Here's the way I see it, the white supremacist idiots went there using the statue of Lee being removed as a pretext to spew their racist hatred of everything. They came prepared to "protest" violently and brazenly displayed their weapons in an intimidation attempt. A few leftist groups bused in willing to oblige them if they got violent. The cops didn't do a good job of keeping the two groups separated. The knuckle draggers were dismissed to the park they were supposed to be at in the first place, not emancipation (Lee) park. With no real direction (or due to being brainless) the supremacists meandered about aimlessly until some of them had the brilliant idea of mowing down people in a crowd on a blocked off street. Now I ask you, how is that any different from one of these radicals from the middle east mowing down people at a market?
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
I agree there's is not much beyond winning -- but Nazis might test the limit for most.
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
Middle east radicals are rightly called called terrorists. White radicals in America are just members of a side. Can't we try to get along, or ideally, love them?
Altair
Well-known member
They were protesting the teardown of the statue of general lee if I understand correctly?
If So, ya, I can get behind that.
The fact that it's skinhead racists doing the protesting sours it for me though.
hockeylover
Well-known member
They were chanting blood and soil, white lives matter, and Jews will not replace us. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say their cause wasn't really the statue.
Altair
Well-known member
Ya, I figured as much.
Like I said, the cause is decent enough, but the people doing the protesting and the the filth they bring with them kind of paints all of it in a bad light.