Tag: hate speech

ithelpstodream:

1) The Rich White Boys of the Far Right Don’t Need Their Speech Protected, Marginalized Communities Do.

2) Free Speech Has Not Led Us to Continuous Progress for People of Color.

3) The United States was Founded on Popular Protest, not Free Speech.

4) Not All Ideas Are Created Equal. Sorry. I Know That is a Hard Thing to Hear, But It is True for Me, and It Should Be True for Everyone With a Heart.

5) Their Speeches Aren’t Just Speeches, They Are Organizing Opportunities.

6) May I Present the Evidence? Free Speech and Nazi Germany.

7) Their Movement is Calling for Literal Genocide. Will You Do Nothing?

http://idavox.com/index.php/2017/10/24/free-speech-and-nazis-7-talking-points-for-your-liberal-friends/

// hit that link and read the arguments for every talking point before your reblog with commentary please, thank you

pragnificent:

If someone walked up to you and said, “I am planning on killing you, your entire family and a significant number of the people who you know and care about,” how many of you would argue that this falls under “free speech”?

Of course you wouldn’t. You would understand that it is a threat and you would do anything you could to shut that threat down. Maybe you would file a police report, buy a gun, or fight that sonofabitch right there, or maybe you would be too afraid to do anything, but regardless of how you responded you would understand that this person needs to be stopped before he hurts you and your loved ones.

Every word from a neo-Nazi’s mouth is a threat of violence against Jewish people, Roma people and people of color and many others.

Not only is it a threat of violence, it is an active attempt to bring that violence into existence by recruiting others who will aid them in taking this violence to its greatest possible extreme.

Show the same respect for marginalized people’s rights to be protected and to defend themselves from political violence that you would expect to be shown if under threat of interpersonal violence.