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In reply to the discussion: I'm starting to think hate speech IS a crime [View all]DeadEyeDyck
(1,504 posts)83. is it a crime to yell "fire" in a crowded theater if the theater is on fire?
even if the theater was not crowded, would yelling "Fire" be equally disturbing to those inside?
I see this as an issue of conveying false information.
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So to be clear, you think "insulting someone's deity" should be illegal.
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#17
"hate speech should not be illegal, it should be countered with more speech."
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#12
Why didn't this thread about hate speech/inciting violence get rec'd?
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#35
Rick Warren called us pedophiles days before he was the Inaugural Minister and DU supported that.
Bluenorthwest
May 2015
#72
"I fucking hate it when people want to criminalize speech because they don't like what's being said"
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#18
People keep comparing Pam Geller to Fred Phelps. Okay, so then handle her the way Fred Phelps was
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#23
“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side..."
cherokeeprogressive
May 2015
#11
And Hitler and Stalin killed in the name of Nazism and Communism, not Atheism.
Yorktown
May 2015
#47
My only point was that religion is not the ONLY ideology that lends itself to violent extremism
whathehell
May 2015
#77
And neither religion OR ideology always creates violence -- Greed, anger and hate come in
whathehell
May 2015
#107
No, that would be like saying that ideology "is in itself a cause of violence"
whathehell
May 2015
#116
Every religion I have studied says that 'change' or redemption requires acts of penance and making
Bluenorthwest
May 2015
#81
So you are claiming that you changed? That you are no longer a transphobe?
Humanist_Activist
May 2015
#91
If the Christian decides to get so mad over it, they become violent.. apparently, yes.
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#26
Hey, aren't you the guy who teaches kids in CCD(Catholic Sunday School) that LGBT people are...
Humanist_Activist
May 2015
#55
If gay people were to start shooting people in reaction to it, THEN the speech would be criminal.
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#57
I just find it fucking funny that we have openly homophobic and transphobic people...
Humanist_Activist
May 2015
#58
Is it a crime when we do it here against Republican thieves and psychos?
True Blue Door
May 2015
#62
Free speech does allow you to shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre. People always get that quote wrong.
Donald Ian Rankin
May 2015
#69
Schenk: urging people to resist the draft. Dreadful decision, not applicable.
Warren Stupidity
May 2015
#70
In the US each year the FBI calls an average of about 1,200 crimes against LGBT as bias crimes
Bluenorthwest
May 2015
#80
Given the author of the OP, they would probably blame the organizers of the LGBT events. n/t
Humanist_Activist
May 2015
#92
You keep refusing to address direct questions and challenges to your vile concept so let's just cut
Bluenorthwest
May 2015
#74
is it a crime to yell "fire" in a crowded theater if the theater is on fire?
DeadEyeDyck
May 2015
#83
The actual decision concurred with criminalization of advocating draft resistance.
Warren Stupidity
May 2015
#90
"Is there value to the democratic process in Geller's speech?" That shouldn't matter.
Throd
May 2015
#93
Striking that your cases are all from before the 1960s and modern First Amendment jurisprudence.
Unvanguard
May 2015
#110