A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.” Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.” A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.” Last year, Nicholas Brock, 52, was convicted of a thought crime in Maidenhead, Berkshire. The neo-Nazi was given a four-year sentence for what the court called his “toxic ideology” based on the contents of the home he shared with his mother in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
Yeah, none of that is justified. Whether religion, opinion, or ideology, it’s your duty to protect everyone’s right to them, just as it’s your duty to prevent people taking harmful action with them—like any other scenario. There’s a big difference in two people yelling their opinions back and forth at each other, and someone planning or insighting crime onto the other because of it. That’s why the street preacher can feel as safe as the guy walking past with 666 tattooed on their forehead. They’re expressing themselves, not harming anyone, whether their opinion is popular or not.
The ACLU defended the right of Neo-Nazis to march. That shows how important free speech is in America. Even if you don’t agree with them, you defend their right to say it.
Which makes sense. Personally, I’d show up to protest and mock them. But wouldn’t say they can’t be there, that’d be hypocritical of me. I’m sure when I protest for what I think is right, there’s a cohort of people that loathe it and think I’m insane too.
If the neos march. I wouldn’t show up. They thrive for any attention. Let them walk down an empty street. They don’t deserve the attention of counter protest. Personally I don’t even like to call them Neo Nazis. They are just bigots. Nazis believed in trade unions, national healthcare, education, roads, er. . the Neo don’t believe in any of that shit. They just hate.
As in the US “free speech” is a white supremacist code word for hate speech.
And what happens when people you don’t like are in power and start censoring you?
You vote. And you make sure you’re voting for someone that won’t try to fuck over society for their own benefit.
So how many elections do think you can guarantee that you won’t have someone who might do something with that power you won’t like?