(September 1, 2017 at 9:05 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Even IF their white supremacy is a religious belief of sorts, I don't see how them being legally allowed to march around with swastikas while spewing racist BS is a religious freedom thing. Seems more like a freedom of speech thing.
CL we already had a time when sickos outnumbered the sane in this country, back then blacks were being lynched and juries stacked against them to convict them. We still have a problem with the rate of incarceration hurting blacks and Hispanics even today.
Incitement to violence is their goal, not merely " you suck" or "bullshit". When you have sickos showing up with weapons of war, the visual is not free speech, it is a challenge, an act of intimidation.
Freedom of speech does include protecting offensive speech, but we are not at a point right now where it is merely where we can respond "what a fucking asshole". It is political and not simply about dissent. It is literally about undermining our values of pluralism, just like the Nazis of WW2 Germany.
