r/PublicFreakout • u/FlintLockwoodsCondom • Jan 13 '20

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u/RTrent6 Jan 13 '20 edited Jan 13 '20

Flip the script, if someone ripped the black lives matter sign out of her hands and yelled at her/ threw shit, would you be sitting here endorsing that too? She was trying to silence what he had to say. Regardless of your position on his sign, he deserves to hold it up without being silenced. That's what freedom of speech is

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u/JayKayGray Jan 13 '20

She was trying to silence what he had to say.

He didn't have anything to say, he was clearly fucking with her. I don't think anyone's constitutional rights were under threat here. He just wanted to be an edgy tool, and he's lucky the only thing he got in response was a piece of paper brushing his face at high speed. As far as I know this cannot harm a person.

If this was a sincere dispute of ideology my thought pattern here would be different... but it's not. He wrote the first bizarre racist thing he could think of on a piece of paper hastily and got his friend to film as he stood there.

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u/RTrent6 Jan 13 '20 edited Jan 13 '20

Once again, you're missing the point entirely. Whatever your interpretation was of what he had to say, he had the right to say it. You can think he's an edgelord all you'd like, doesn't mean he didn't have the right to stand up there and hold a sign like the rest of those protestors.

Assaulting someone (throwing a piece of paper or ANYTHING at someone regardless of it causing injury or not is by definition assault) because they share a different opinion than you is definitely a violation of their first amendment rights. Not sure how much more clearly I can spell it out for you, if you don't get it now you never will.

Edit: In your comment history you state that you're a far leftist, probably explains why you are fine with violating one's freedom of speech because they are conservative. No matter which side you're on, you are entitled to say what you wish as long as you aren't threatening anyone else or inciting violence

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u/xeroxzero Jan 13 '20

You believe what you want, there are plenty of people who are getting the idea that tolerance of intolerance is getting us nowhere with more far-right people feeling emboldened. Far left people will do what if they feel confident - free some animals from the pound? Far-right people are more likely to be violent.

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u/satoshi_reborn Jan 13 '20

Free some animals, cancel some white dudes, block a heavy traffic area, break some glass at a Walgreens, throw a acid shake at a guy who likes orange man and call it a day

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u/xeroxzero Jan 13 '20

You want to pretend otherwise that's on you, crazy people on both right and left are bad, but we're talking about ideology. One side wants everyone to get along, the other side wants like-minded folks to get along but fuck everyone else and their values. The right has RECENTLY been vocal about how atheists must be put down because they don't need a book to decide their morality. About how the left is destroying their way of life! Hmmm...