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Hate speach won't only speech that might incite someone to commit violence.
Expected result
"Mexicans are all rapists, and murderers and are harming the fabric of our society" -- Protected free speach
"that's really hateful to say about a whole class of people that have all walks of life in them just like us" -- Potentially inciting violence
Unless it's "hate" against a right winger of course.
I would love to see them attempt to prosecute someone who uses the exact same language just targeting a fascist that all the fascists are able to say on platforms like Twitter and Trumps Social.
I’m sure it won’t take very long.
We've already seen how this works with protests.
If it was, Kirk would be in a cell instead of a grave.
When legal justice fails, vigilante justice becomes the only option.
Attorney General Pam Bondi tells Axios her office is not prosecuting or investigating anyone for alleged hate speech, only for speech that she says unlawfully incites violence.
That's what they've already supposed to have been doing. Speech that unlwafully incites violence is already illegal.
Oh, like all those conservatives that called for civil war and all those conservatives that went into the doxxing site and then proceeded to make death threats against those who were on the list?
She's doing just that right? Right?
When are they going to arrest Taco for inciting J6?
Guess they need to arrest the bots on /r/conservative
So…. Lemme understand this. Outright saying crazy hateful stuff is hunky dory, but correctly attributing/quoting those statements is potentially punishable at the federal level?
...the fuck?
They’re all mixed up, like pasta primavera.
Hey Pammy, you know that if you selectively target people for investigation/prosecution for other things based on their speech, you are still violating their constitutional rights, right? First amendment retaliation is adverse actions taken to deter or punish the exercise of your first amendment rights. You don't have to prosecute the speech itself to violate the constitution if you are specifically targeting legal action against people because of their speech. It still chills free speech.
Fucking LOL!
Yeah. I believe that exactly as much as everything else you and your fascist compatriots have said.
Man, she must have a wicked case of whiplash, right about now.
They just all suffered from short-term memory loss
This is exactly what liberals wanted when they passed the earliest hate speech legislation in the 90's.
Truly a leopards eating my face moment.
Hate speech, to them, is speech that would make anyone critical of the right. Frankly, they should shut the hell up then.
They’re eating the cats and dogs