The You Can't Make This Shit Up Department

[Jenny A]

Are you being serious? This is not idiocy, these ideologies are dangerous and can be propagated easily to volatile fragile influential minds. Why do you think former fascist countries made fascism and nazism illegal and invested so much on 300 articles constitutions with all rights described specifically? To prevent further disasters. Well some opinions are pure stupidity but there's a line between that and posing a danger. The proof of that is the rise of far right in europe, the so called nationalist parties that disguise themselves in cultural identities and nation values to hide their fascist heritage based on hate, racism and xenophobe, just check Marine Le Penn's comment comparing Muslims in france with Hitler's holocaust (it was funny but still highly racist) or her father making the anti-immigration comments advocating the death of all them trough the ebola virus

I know this tends to be very hard for foreigners, especially those not in North America, to grasp, but the free speech portion of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment is enforced strictly here:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

In particular, the courts interpret this to prohibit regulation of speech content.

There are exceptions for speech causing immediate danger (like yelling fire in a crowded theater, or asking people to commit crimes). There are also obscenity exceptions. But that's about it.

Personally, I strongly agree with this. Private people react by criticizing particularly ugly speech. Hence, Walmart's apology. Would that the separation of church and state were as strictly enforced.