The You Can't Make This Shit Up Department

[Jenny A]

Between the right to free speech and public security we prefer the later because it guarantees democracy's sustainability.

The only public security limitation on our free speech has to do with outing government secrets you've sworn not to reveal.

How would you feel if you were a jew and someone made an anti Semitic protest humiliating your kind?

Substitute the word atheist or woman for the Jew, and I do have an inkling how it feels, though perhaps not with the same feeling of fear. But peoples' feelings aren't so important as freedom of speech. If you can't freely discuss, what you have isn't really a democracy because not all ideas can be considered by the people.

What is important is that the Constitution protects a number of rights from the government: free speech, freedom of religion, freedom from the establishment by government of religion, freedom of assembly, equal rights under the law regardless of race, sex, or religion. And yes those are all limits to democracy.

Feelings, we protect in more specific limited places. Make those same antisemitic comments in the workplace and you have the beginnings of a civil equal rights claim.