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RML Hoos

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Yup - just like Nazis in Skokie Illinois. Its vile, awful, hateful


speech that is not good, not appropriate and should not be condoned - but we also should not prohibit such speech just because it is vile, hateful, awful.

Make it even more specific, a group of students marching around campus saying so-and-so professor should be fired or even executed for his "crimes" or his "political beliefs" or even his ethnicity should be protected. Its awful, vile speech and we should all view people who would say such things accordingly - but it should be allowed. Now, students surrounding his house saying they are going to drag him out and execute him or urging the assembled mob to burn his house down are true threats or indictment respectively - and that can be punished. But short of that, it should be protected speech.




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Posted: 12/07/2023 at 12:27PM



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