I am curious where you are going with the sarcasm in your first paragraph.
Do you mean to say that it is in fact appropriate for some groups to be disqualified from the First Amendment? I wonder, who is in charge of making those disqualifications? Are you absolutely sure you will always be happy with the people making those calls? Trump for instance?
The very best way to protect against the stealthy, creeping "re-normalization" of nazisim, as Czar seems to think is already happening, is to make sure these people are heard in public. Shine a bright spotlight on them and their evil ideas. Ain't nothing stealthy about it that way. You and I share tremendous anger at Trump's equivocation. Along with virtually the entire rest of the country, including pretty much every member of Congress, both houses, both parties. You think the racist, bigoted elements of the Alt Right are better off than before August 11? I don't.
Free speech is not about talking extremists out of their extremism. Who would waste their time? But it is the best way to prevent extremism from spreading., because it shows it for what it is.
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Posted: 09/21/2017 at 1:17PM