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The reason you don't see "free speech" used for those causes isn't because they don't rely on free speech. It's because advocacy for them is so clearly protecte
by cvz 1y ago
The reason you don't see "free speech" used for those causes isn't because they don't rely on free speech. It's because advocacy for them is so clearly protected as free speech that it isn't even a question. There have been times when that protection was a question in the U.S., like when protesting wars or segregation laws.
Without the right to say something, there is no legal way to organize or to demand any other right.
Edited to remove an unwarranted statement at the beginning of this comment.
- facile3232 1y ago> Without the right to say something, there is no legal way to organize or to demand any other right. Americans don't do this, though. They don't demand better. They accept shitty governance and say "at least I voted". And frankly I don't think they ever will. So I say, fuck it, let's just all accept that government is shitty and mostly exists to squeeze us for money. We can finally stop acting like it's representative of us. When y'all finally have had enough riots will work just as fine as they did before.
- cvz 1y ago> Americans don't do this, though. They don't demand better. They accept shitty governance and say "at least I voted". And frankly I don't think they ever will. That is an obviously wrong statement even if we only look at protests within the past 5 years.
- facile3232 1y ago[flagged]
- collingreen 1y agoMaybe some of us don't want to devolve into cutting off people's heads and asking questions later?
- facile3232 1y agoPerhaps if liberals read non-liberals they would have acquired an imagination in the last two hundred years. Obviously that's far from the only path forward outside of your sick fantasies.
- cvz 1y agoWho should the unimaginative non-liberals read, and why?