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Ford_Prefect

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12. Americans need to learn why such hate speech is illegal elsewhere.
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:38 AM
May 2020

It is not a question of self-expression versus state control. It is that those particular expressions represent a will to exterminate those we do not agree with, as the Confederate battle flag does. Witness the gun waving crowd inside the Michigan Capitol proclaiming: "The people's house is OUR house!" Ask yourself why they needed to threaten anyone who would dispute that point with immediate death?

I am beginning to believe all Republicans are yuiyoshida May 2020 #1
In Berlin, by the Wall (Lou Reed) denem May 2020 #2
It is a symptom of the rot in this country and this world. Behind the Aegis May 2020 #3
So, can we call these protestors, that want to re-open the US, Nazis? sakabatou May 2020 #4
If the jackboot fits, wear it. sop May 2020 #5
Exactly rickyhall May 2020 #7
is there any doubt? agingdem May 2020 #6
I read your words three times. democrank May 2020 #8
My wife and I went to Auschwitz, where my mother's parents were killed. Fortinbras Armstrong May 2020 #14
Arbeit Macht Frei.. agingdem May 2020 #16
and to think llashram May 2020 #18
I call them nazi trash. nt Progressive Jones May 2020 #20
Those who cannot... lostinhere May 2020 #9
The sad thing is that when they need support... pazzyanne May 2020 #10
Monsters Pause May 2020 #11
Americans need to learn why such hate speech is illegal elsewhere. Ford_Prefect May 2020 #12
Sorry, but hate speech should not be illegal here as it is in Europe and other places, dware May 2020 #19
+100 ! Those who want to control speech... reACTIONary May 2020 #24
This message was self-deleted by its author Fortinbras Armstrong May 2020 #13
Boils down to rich white people want poor & people of colour to serve them. Slavery is not freeedom Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #15
Who is the person holding the sign? GusBob May 2020 #17
It sounded better in the original German. malthaussen May 2020 #21
There was a Chris Hayes quote about these dirtbag nazi protestors, last week. Mc Mike May 2020 #22
People who would carry such signs are Monsters. They walk among us. Hekate May 2020 #23
Trump-approved protests. yes. they. are. riversedge May 2020 #25
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