If Freedom of Religion amd Freedom of Speech means a tax exempt fascist terrorist sect wants to enslave and silence women, time to repeal the First Amendment
@rticks They're not meant to be.
But freedom of speech only works when it is message-agnostic. Giving the government the ability to punish pro-nazi speech just guarantees that the government will punish anti-nazi speech when the nazis gain power.
In other words, by attempting to deny the nazis their rights, you're helping them out and doing their job for them.
@LouisIngenthron That is a totla straw man argument
Germany outlaws nazism and works better than we do
@rticks Except it doesn't "work better than we do". Germany is an incredibly censorious state, banning many symbols and ideologies, and throwing people *in jail* for calling each other "freeloaders".
Besides, Germany is an odd choice since you only have to look back less than a hundred years to see very sinister uses of such censorious laws by a truly evil government.
The idea that bad actors couldn't once more take hold of these institutions and use them against the very people they're meant to protect is, well, naive at least.
You are literally defending the speech of fascists slavers and murderers
That is no longer tolerable
Adirlue
@LouisIngenthron
Yup.
And yet they are not equally moral positions