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Me: 1) How do you determine if they are lies?
That's what we have courts for.
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You appear to be ok with allowing the Courts to define racial stereotypes. I am not.
Tell me, if a Court declares that it is ok to stereotype Jews as being thieves, will you accept their decision? Do you think this will lead to more or fewer people stereotyping Jews as thieves?
I am unwilling to give the courts that kind of power. Sorry.
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Me: 2) At what point are you slandering "a people"?
When you are telling lies about them
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What if the courts decide they arent lies? Does that make my "All Jews are thieves" slander legitimate?
That is why you people are so short sighted...you never consider the possibility that your oppressive rules will be used against you. The sword cuts both ways.
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Me: Where is the line drawn? Do I count as an American Indian because 1/16 of my ancestry is American Indian?
I think that anyone who identifies with a people can argue that they are being slandered by ugly propaganda.
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Um...so even if I have no Indian ancestry, I can still claim to be slandered by someone making fun of Indians?
Doesn't that mean that anyone can claim to be slandered for anything?
(and by Indian I mean
Feather-Indian, not Dot-Indian)
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The Holocaust happened in the lifetime of people in my family.
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Did it happen in America?
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Blacks in America were lynched. 'Injuns' were killed. There is prejudice and stereotypes to this day.
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Thought policing wont make the prejudice go away. It will just drive it underground.
Europe is experiencing far more racial strife than the US is right now, despite the fact that the US has far fewer restrictions on free speech. Why is that?
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One cannot simply say, 'oh well -- these are the casualties of free speech'. One can act as a civil society to deal with such things.
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We do deal with them....by confronting them in the arena of public opinion.
Thats how we solved our racial problems. We confronted the racists and debunked the myths their racism was based on. Their power has been steadily decreasing in America every generation because of this.
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If however, someone was claiming that Jews were murdering little Christian boys and making matzoh meal out of them, I think that Jews should have recourse to limiting that person's speech in that regard.
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If it is so obviously absurd, what are they afraid of?
By silencing the people who say things you dont like, you give the impression that there is some truth in what they are saying.
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Because others, if they believed that, might go out and kill Jews in order to 'save' little Christian boys.
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They wont believe it by default. They'd have to have a reason to believe it. By suppressing free speech you are giving them that reason.