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Boston Public Service Announcement...... (Original Post) USALiberal Aug 2017 OP
k and r.....nt Stuart G Aug 2017 #1
EXCELLENT!!! liberalla Aug 2017 #2
K&R!!!! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2017 #3
Original source is webcomic xkcd cos dem Aug 2017 #4
Thanks for the link! n/t USALiberal Aug 2017 #5
Kick SCantiGOP Aug 2017 #6
Say whatever you want. cilla4progress Aug 2017 #7
Believe whatever the fuck you want madokie Aug 2017 #15
I've been trying to explain that basic concept to idiots for years! Stonepounder Aug 2017 #8
K&R Paka Aug 2017 #9
Wicked Pissah nt Xipe Totec Aug 2017 #10
Well done! Dark n Stormy Knight Aug 2017 #11
Me too! n/t USALiberal Aug 2017 #19
I love this! I can't tell you how many times I have read in comment sections smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #12
I have seen this also. They do not get it. n/t USALiberal Aug 2017 #18
Zing! oasis Aug 2017 #13
This should be pinned to the top of the GD forum for all those times ... Hekate Aug 2017 #14
I love it. BASE Aug 2017 #16
I agree with you. But hard line to define. n/t USALiberal Aug 2017 #21
Great Poster! burrowowl Aug 2017 #17
Pitch perfect suffragette Aug 2017 #20
best xkcd ever keroro gunsou Aug 2017 #22
K & R FailureToCommunicate Aug 2017 #23

cos dem

(903 posts)
4. Original source is webcomic xkcd
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:01 PM
Aug 2017
https://xkcd.com/1357/

Posted for those who might be interested. I don't always agree with him, but he's interesting.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
8. I've been trying to explain that basic concept to idiots for years!
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:43 PM
Aug 2017

If you decide to call your boss an a-hole, the feds won't arrest you. That's them protecting your 1st Amendment right.

Of course when your boss fires you, the Feds won't arrest him either. That's the consequence for being an idiot.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. I love this! I can't tell you how many times I have read in comment sections
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 12:17 AM
Aug 2017

on other sites right-wingers saying things like "Oh, now the Liberals are against free-speech, what hypocrites". They simply don't understand that fact that "free-speech" doesn't mean we have to allow their side to have the ONLY and final word and stay silent about it. It only means that they are allowed to say it. It doesn't mean we have to put up with it, as long as no criminal action is committed on our part we can protest them wherever they are.

Hekate

(90,708 posts)
14. This should be pinned to the top of the GD forum for all those times ...
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 12:35 AM
Aug 2017

...some poor deluded poster whines that his "free speech rghts are being violated" by DU's TOS.

 

BASE

(44 posts)
16. I love it.
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 12:41 AM
Aug 2017

This is much better than what I've usually managed to come up with on the spot while making the same argument. I also think at some point hate speech can become dangerous enough its really not a 1st amendment right anymore. I guess that's a slippery slope thing there though.

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