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Unlike Germany, we have freedom of speech, which means it also applies to ignorant assholes that indoctrinate their kids to be pieces of shit in life.
Nobody takes the Westboro baptist church seriously, they've been a problem for decades.
I accept that both Germany and the US have freedom of speech. The difference is that Germany will crack down on hate speech which is what this is. If allowed to remain just because you want to uphold free speech absolutism, then hate speech goes unchallenged and so it spreads, allowing more hate speech.
Yeah but who gets to draw that line though? I agree that this kind of speech is harmful, but if we leave it to the dipshits in Congress to decide what is and isn’t hate speech that kind of shit will be allowed and any speech against the oligarchy will be considered hate speech. I draw the line as a citizen by not giving them my time, but I feel like if you going the government the power to arrest folks over speech alone things will get real bad real fast.
A law that delineates what hate speech is and its consequences, limiting it to speech against sex, gender, orientation, race, ethnicity, faith and disability. Like sane countries do.
That’s all perfectly reasonable, I just don’t trust American lawmakers to do that. Then again, I don’t trust them to pass a budget or let the government stay open or fulfill other basic functions of their job, so…..
In principle we are in agreement for sure. I guess we shouldn’t base potential policy based on the incompetence of our lawmakers, but ignoring their incompetence has risks of its own
I hate being an American. If I could pack my family up and leave for a better country I would.
Totally get what you mean. It might be easier for these protections to exist on the local or state level, but of course it'll vary dramatically state to state.
You should look into the paradox of tolerance.
The paradox disappears when you stop considering tolerance to be a moral stance, and recognize it as a social contract.
Those who break the contractual agreements are not protected by contract’s provisions.
If nobody takes them seriously, why are they a problem?
Because even when you don't take them seriously it's not enjoyable to have them show up with signs like this at funerals for gay people, etc.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/03/21/westboro-baptist-church-pickets-funerals/6688951/
I would very much like it if some of that was restricted. I don't think white supremacists or Christian Nationalists or nazis or any other group like that should have a voice or even be allowed to exist. 80 years ago we killed nazis and we should do it again.
That's a dangerous precedent, because it assumes that the people that hold power will largely agree with your views.
Except at some point some viewpoint you have, which will probably be both correct and sane, will be labeled as hate speech by some moron or group in power at the time, then what? Then we're China, and speaking against a hive mind can land you in prison, and that's if you're lucky.
It's enough to have a rainbow book in a library in the land of the free