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Originally Posted by Samoht
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No it doesn't. The analogy of screaming fire in a crowded theater comes to mind. If you create violence, chaos, panic from your words, you are not protected under free speech.
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Except that it's an absolutely awful analogy.
Expressing an unpopular opinion is not an incitement to violence or panic, and never will be.
Read this repeated-into-cliche Voltaire quote,
similar by Ben Franklin, or any number of other Enlightenment-era authors and really think about what you're saying when you talk about suppressing the freedom of expression for fear of violence (not even from the expressers or their allies being incited by inflammatory speech, but from their
opposition). This sentiment is one of the few that can be described as truly anti-American. Shameful shit.
Do you smile broadly at Janet's monologuing face on the closed circuit TV every time TSA forces you to take off your shoes and step into the nude body scanner?