08-20-2017, 08:01 AM
(08-20-2017, 12:25 AM)kandrathe Wrote: I remember a KKK rally march from the 60's. I was a kid, but they marched , spewed their hate and no one I knew liked it happening... but, at the end of it... I thought to myself, America is kind of a great place, where even if you are reprehensible, you have basic rights of assembly, and speech. The march and vitriol they vomitted were forgettable. But, I remember they had the rights to do it.
Well, I beg to differ.
In the 60`s in the US they also still used to drag black people behind a car, and it was in the south somehow accepted.....partly because those KKK types had some legitimacy because they were allowed to protest.
Freedom of speech stops when you use it to threaten and to support violence against certain groups. The US always had a problem understanding what freedom of speech exactly implies.