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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
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If you use your right to free speech in order to attempt to intimidate others into silence, then it ceases to be free speech by definition

Mrincewind.run

the biggest threat to free speech in this country is that everyone knows speaking out loudly against the right wing messaging machine, and getting its attention, will result in endless death threats and harassment and they don’t care if you’re one of their own

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Sstrepsirrhini.bsky.social

This is gonna break people's brains just like the tolerance paradox. Folks really need to get this stuff.

Tolerance paradox info graphic, illustrating that in order to defend tolerance, we must prevent intolerant people from participating.
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PRproudrebelscum.bsky.social

pssst...they're not really interested in free speech.

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GRgeorgerinaldi.bsky.social

A long ago Supreme Court justice once said "your right to swing your fist ends where the other person's nose begins".

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TSmaybeimaleo.bsky.social

Is there a snappy, marketable name for the kind of speech we all know should be prohibited, but isn't?

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DPdarrelplant.bsky.social

Apparently not, according to the FBI! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

In fact, the officials said, the First Amendment meant that there was little more that law eco to stop extremist violence. One of the officials told me that respecting constitutional rights is "probably the hardest part of the job on the domestic-terrorism front," in part because it requires understanding that "rhetoric and intent are two different things." Glorifying violence against a minority—even wishing aloud for it—is free speech: "Only when that moves to, say, plotting to kill Jewish people and planning to burn down a synagogue—that is when the F.B.I. can open an investigation." from "Infiltrating the Far Right" by David D. Kirkpatrick in the August, 18 2024 edition of "The New Yorker"
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BBbrooklynmarie.bsky.social

I will DIE on this hill, probably literally when the Nazis finally come for me haha ugh

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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
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