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In reply to the discussion: Orlando played host to Muslim speaker’s call for death to gays, just weeks ago [View all]Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)21. I don't give a monkeys about your first ammendment
or any other ammendments or your constitution. Hate speech is not given the protection of freedom of speech over here, and it's got absolutely nothing to do with my views. I didn't draft the legislation, but I do agree with it.
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Orlando played host to Muslim speaker’s call for death to gays, just weeks ago [View all]
AntiBank
Jun 2016
OP
...and pretty much every city in America plays host to Christian fundamentalists with the same
Chakab
Jun 2016
#1
Mommy, Johnnny did it too! The excuse of toddlers, whining toddlers. 50 killed. Do not dismiss it.
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2016
#6
Not really. Inflammatory rhetoric against gays is as common in churches as in mosques
Warpy
Jun 2016
#77
Not in our Episcopal Church - we dance, drink good scotch and the Anglican Communication suspended
24601
Jun 2016
#83
Thank you for posting this. It is not just Radical Islamists who are calling for violence against
JudyM
Jun 2016
#18
Violence against LGBTs can come from any angle... in the US it's a mish mosh of reasons,
JudyM
Jun 2016
#36
This is really like pointing to black racism in response to manifestations of white racism.
David__77
Jun 2016
#20
Sorry, that wasn't my intention at all. I meant to point out that this type of retrograde
Chakab
Jun 2016
#43
Look, I'm not wading into this argument about the "regressive left" and whether or not
Chakab
Jun 2016
#54
I didn't watch all of those, but that "person" in the second video would fit in well with ISIS
PersonNumber503602
Jun 2016
#104
Malcolm Turnbull orders urgent visa review of anti-gay Islamic cleric Farrokh Sekaleshfar
whirlygigspin
Jun 2016
#61
"plays host" is an odd way of stating that someone happened to speak in a particular place.
FailureToCommunicate
Jun 2016
#8
Yes of course the venue is hosting, but the headline sorta suggests the city of Orlando hosted him.
FailureToCommunicate
Jun 2016
#68
When the press is too corrupt to do its job is when freedom of speech becomes even more
Akicita
Jun 2016
#62
Speech inciting violence is illegal over here too. Speech by people saying they hate this or hate
Akicita
Jun 2016
#69
Free speech does not legitimize hate speech. It opens people who say ridiculous things to
Akicita
Jun 2016
#73
If you had free speech, one which allows the Media to report the truth, you'd never have
Bad Dog
Jun 2016
#74
Have you read a newspaper lately? Even a corrupt one would inform you that the citizenry overthrew
Akicita
Jun 2016
#75
Your defence of hate speech has allowed you to elect a Fascist as Republican nominee.
Bad Dog
Jun 2016
#79
We have a saying over here on this side of the pond that we may not agree with what our opponents
Akicita
Jun 2016
#80
The one good reason is that you can never trust the deciders of what is or is not hate speech.
Akicita
Jun 2016
#92
Government controlled speech would allow the media to report the truth? Get a grip. Was Pravda your
Akicita
Jun 2016
#91
Did you not say that government is the decider of what is hate speech? Therefore government controls
Akicita
Jun 2016
#96
I know that in the real world government control of speech worked real well for Stalin and the
Akicita
Jun 2016
#98
The subject is government control of speech. Stalin is an example of why I am against it.
Akicita
Jun 2016
#101
I'm hurt you don't care about my lineage. After all, we may be related. My ancestors used to rape
Akicita
Jun 2016
#108
I would add slander to the speech that should be criminalized. For example, accusing someone of a
Akicita
Jun 2016
#93
Exactly! This is a prime opportunity for the media to delve into hatred of LGBTs, and all they can
JudyM
Jun 2016
#35
Homophobic terrorism, he called it, yes, that is a good term for it! And good for him! This is
JudyM
Jun 2016
#39
Your points about fetishizing hate speech & the exasperation of that gay journalist would make
JudyM
Jun 2016
#42
I think that Mateen's motives were personal. Feeling rejection made him click >
YOHABLO
Jun 2016
#106
We have played host to a number of right wing conservative hosts that talk hate
rockfordfile
Jun 2016
#31
they lock people up in prison here for doing brutal satirical art that delves into racial and religi
AntiBank
Jun 2016
#34
Husseini Islamic Center should apologize for hosting such hatemongers...
Humanist_Activist
Jun 2016
#78