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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 06:44 PM Sep 2017

Suppressing Racist, Bigoted, Ugly Speech Violation Of 1st Amendment. GOP Meme.

The meme that stopping someone from using the "N" Or "S" Or "G" pejorative when describing someone of Black, Hispanic or Asian descent is now considered a violation of 1st Amendment. In fact ANY suppression is now framed in such a manner. Even actions against or suppression racial or religious hate crimes is now being framed a unAmerican or against freedom.

We are now seeing how twisted everything is now under Trump and of course the GOP actually agrees. You can tell by their silence or excuses. Anything is permitted just so they get support of their base. And we are now we are seeing ugliness renewed on steroids all across the country. Now whites are under attack because they cannot just discriminate, disseminate national origin hatred etc etc etc.

Every day we see some outbreak of public hatefulness. And in some of the red states you are in real danger if you go out being of certain ethnic minority or religious persuasion or sexual orientation . The GOP and Trump believe they will trump politically by creating a state of mind similar to just before the Civil War.

Yet the media keeps normalizing Trump and the GOP as just like everyone else. And bothsiderism is the excuse to frame the opposition as JUST AS RACIST AND BIGOTED as anyone.

We cannot survive as a nation like this in the long term.

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Suppressing Racist, Bigoted, Ugly Speech Violation Of 1st Amendment. GOP Meme. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Sep 2017 OP
Non-content-neutral suppression of speech BY GOVERNMENT is generally unconstitutional. X_Digger Sep 2017 #1
The government isn't stopping anyone from using those words NutmegYankee Sep 2017 #2
People have the right under the 1st Amendment to say those things. Warren DeMontague Sep 2017 #3
Yes The Speech Is Being Challenged Publicly. The GOP Implies The Govt Has Done It. TheMastersNemesis Sep 2017 #4

X_Digger

(18,585 posts)
1. Non-content-neutral suppression of speech BY GOVERNMENT is generally unconstitutional.
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 06:52 PM
Sep 2017

'Public hatefulness' is not something that the government can regulate.

And thankfully so. Imagine what Der Trumpf would mandate? *shiver*

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)
2. The government isn't stopping anyone from using those words
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 06:58 PM
Sep 2017

It's societal pressure, like peers and customer concerns, that stop people from using those words. In fact, the public disapproval and outcast effect is so strong that racists either stay on the down low or they band into groups, like the white supremacists.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
3. People have the right under the 1st Amendment to say those things.
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 07:10 PM
Sep 2017

Doesn't mean they aren't being bigoted fuckholes. Doesn't mean they can't be called out for it.

However the speech is still constitutionally protected. It just is.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
4. Yes The Speech Is Being Challenged Publicly. The GOP Implies The Govt Has Done It.
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 09:20 PM
Sep 2017

The implication is that the government is on your back over racist speech. Trump and company think that racial and religious discrimination and actions should be ok.

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