A very well thought out OP

What do people think African-Americans see when haters march with the confederate battle flag and assorted other white supremacist paraphernalia?

They see the incitement of the oppression of black people - the call for a return to the enslavement, lynching, torture, abuse, and rape of black people. The total control of black people. The ownership of black people.

What? People didn't know that's what the confederate battle flag represents?

Well, now they know.

Thank you.
Was going to post about that flag too. It's offensive and those assholes flying it must know it represents "white pride."

You're welcome!

nor is running people down with vehicles.

Same goes for money - except that money is at least something useful.

Unless there is a specific and overt call to action that is directly linked, it's absolutely covered by the first amendment.

The cartoon is simply put wrong legally. Just because the cartoonist wants to claim that something is incitement doesn't actually make it so. This is basic law. Merely having a nazi flag doesn't even come close to meeting the criteria of the Brandenburg test.

I never looked at it in quite that way

And the President should say they are monsters.
And he didnt.

This would get laughed out of court if somebody tried to claim that the mere presence of a nazi flag was enough to qualify for proactively punching the person with it. It doesn't even remotely come close to passing the incitement test.

If you'd like to understand how utter silly this is, try swapping the flag for a U.S. flag and talking about the genocides on Native American tribes and how that means if you have a U.S. flag a Native American would be justified in punching you.

Have Hate Speech laws been tested in the SCOTUS yet on 1st Amedment grounds? I wonder if they can be used to curb the most egregious.