REALLY? FUCKING REALLY? No, no one is born with a Nazi flag in their hand that they can't drop. No one is born such that the only words that can come out of their mouths are "Jews will not replace us". No one is born in such a circumstance that they have to promote the ideology of the Nazi party.
Yes, I know the adage: Nobody is born racist. But people are born into racist households, racist communities, racist regimes, etc., and the idea of being able to enshrine any group of people in some kind of list of "It's always okay to shit on these people" strikes me as...dangerous. I've said before that adding individual people to such a list is one thing, but what you suggest sounds like it could lead to things like that cartoon where Daffy gets repeatedly shot because Bugs sneaks fake rabbit ears on him.
I haven't had coffee yet, so I'll stop you right there. IT'S A FUCKING CARTOON.
That's why war crimes tribunals charged them by name rather than by swastika. If every single one of them was charged, it would still be on an individual basis. Even Nazi hunters in post-WWII had to know who they were looking for.
Yes. Add people to lists, not A People.
Well, let them out already, man.
Wait wait, this whole time Bubble181 wasn't a username, but an address?
Thanks for the info, Bubble!
Pez didn't say anything about shitting on people. He's talking about considering Nazi rhetoric and symbols (given their history) as inherently being an advocation of violence against particular groups of people, and therefore should not be protected speech. How is that shitting on people?
When did I say "it's okay to shit on Nazis"? All I've advocated is that genocide and the associated Nazi flag not be considered valid political statements. People can think that shit, they can say they believe in that shit, but they should not be protected in their right to promote it at political rallies/forums. People can still draw Joe Cool, but they can't take out full color two-page spreads in magazines anymore. WHY? Because advertising cigarettes isn't protected speech. That hasn't somehow made it "okay to shit on smokers" or even "okay to shit on cigarette manufacturers".
I stand corrected.
Flying the Nazi flag implies the latter, the same way that aiming a loaded gun at a person implies violence.
Popehat: How To Spot And Critique Censorship Tropes In The Media's Coverage Of Free Speech Controversies (not quoting from this one, it's a few bullet-points of tropes--most of which have been trotted out in the last few pages).
Actually, the Supreme Court has ruled that such hate speech is protected by the First Amendment. Brandenburg v. Ohio
Basically, the reason the advocacy of violence is protected is to allow the citizenry the ability to freely speak in exaggeration and to allow affected groups to communicate their displeasure in an open, honest means.
That's not how that works, AFAIK. It's the SS' job to work around the President's schedule and needs, not the other way around. They would warn the President of the degradation in service quality (and suggest mitigation options, like additional funding from Congress or staying at the WH and getting a VR golf setup) and try their best to keep him safe.
Well, darn. It would have been funny as hell if they could have kept him away from his golf courses. What we need now is some government lawyers to declare that going to Mar-A-Lago is in violation of campaign finance laws.
Unlike Trump, Stienman's kids actually work. Even now, they're researching for the five-paragraph post on why he CAN be President.
I thought you'd approve of encouraging Trump to do more self harm.
He can't do much self harm with those tiny hands.
