Conservative talkshow host Erick Erickson tore into “moron” Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday after she claimed “hate speech” did not count as “free speech” and would be targeted by her office.
“Someone needs to explain to Ms. Bondi that so-called ‘hate speech,’ repulsive though it may be, is protected by the First Amendment. She should know this,” weighed in Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume
Well, America, it is time to decide on this. If “hate speech” is actually is protected, then you cannot prosecute anyone calling out Kirk for what he was and stood for. If not, people like Kirk would belong behind bars, which would have avoided a lot of issues in the first place.
If only they could’ve figured that out a bit earlier
Don’t let the far right hear you say that. You may catch a bullet.*
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*from the aforementioned far right. I am not threatening anyone. Please let me keep my passport.
It’s not that the AG doesn’t know what she said is wrong. It’s that she doesn’t care about the law.
Conservatives would know best. They use hate speech more than most.
Hate Experts Hate Hate Experts.
More violent too, per the study DoJ Barbie just took down
Goddamnit
Two morons arguing moron talking points calling each other morons. What the fuck is going on anymore.
Two morons arguing moron talking points calling each other morons
A story as old as time
Proof COVID19 was a brain rot disease.
Being a racist, bigot, fascist, or nazi is not an innate human characteristic, it is behavior. Even in countries that do not have insane loopholes in their freedom of expression the concept of hate speech is stringently defined. Calling out someone’s evil, malicious, dangerous, violent actions is not hate speech. Speaking out against hate speech is not hate speech. This is yet another example of rightist reality reversal rhetoric at work.
The talk show host is definitely a moron.
Moron or not, she is correct. The Supreme Court has ruled multiple times that hate speech is protected under the First Amendment.
It doesn’t matter any more what the Supreme Court has previously ruled. Speech is protected if it supports the regime and not protected otherwise. Things are moving quickly now.
Oh yeah, Brett Kavanaugh saying race can be a factor in ICE detainments even though it directly contradicted their own ruling on Affirmative Action made it clear they don’t give a shit about precedent, even when it’s their precedent.
They want to be able to arrest their political opponents for saying mean things about them, but if California or NY used the same standard and arrested people in their states for actual hate speech the right wing outrage machine would go into an instant meltdown.
They can think that Trump is ruining their lives and they’ll still vote for him because it’s going to be worse for the Libs.
apparentlyIf people could get over themselves and realize that fractures like this represent opportunities to try and find even the tiniest speck of shared values with those conservatives who appear to not be totally rabid MAGA cultists…
… instead of just relentlessly mocking them…
… there is a chance that a total obliteration of free speech and total crackdown on liberals and leftists, as in, throwing them all into jails, or worse, along with the establishment of a repressive theofascist state basically along the lines of Gilead…
… could at least be avoided in the near term.
The alternative is that all liberals and leftists and minorities and the homeless and soon to become homeless… act indignant and confused and outraged as they are more or less marched into camps for ‘making jokes’.
If anyone has a better plan, or alternative analysis… I am all ears.
You are correct. However, I don’t think people know how to exploit it. It’s two morons shouting moronic things calling eachother morons.
I don’t know any leftists who are moronic enough to inject more divisive things into the argument without making the opposition to the regime look worse.
