https://www.thenation.com/article/bloomington-indiana-farmers-market-white-supremacy/
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Copying some of an old post from another thread because it also belongs here:
The insistence of White America that the open advocacy of White supremacist terrorism must be tolerated is itself an expression of White supremacy.
The same tolerance is not extended to non-White America. Look at the bloodsoaked history of Black resistance leaders, look at the current reality of Muslim and Latinx America.
White people advocating for racial genocide: protected and enabled by the full force of the state. Black people suggesting that people of colour should defend themselves: surveillance, persecution, arrest, assassination.
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And this reply thread:
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This is what censorship and infringement of free speech actually looks like. Not private companies and individuals showing you the door, but wealthy and powerful people using the stateās monopoly on violence to silence their critics and dissenters.
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A straightforward explanation of trumpās hypocrisy on free speech (that is, he wants it for some, and not for others), and of his bungling incompetence in this area.
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The look on that idiot cops face when he notices the cameras.
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Iām surprised they didnāt jump them up to felonies in order to disenfranchise anyone saying something they donāt like.
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JFC. The sheer numbers of rigged-out cops in that last video is deeply unsettling.
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Tennessee thought of that
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To forestall nitpicking: yes, Twitter is a private organisation and this has little to do with the US First Amendment [1]. Freedom of Expression is a much broader topic than the minutia of US legal norms.
Despite the supposed Constitutional protections of the USA, free speech has never been universally available. The permissibility of aggressive language has always been a function of the race/class/gender of the speaker and subject.
Whose lives are valued, whose lives are disposable? Where do they draw the boundaries of moral personhood?
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[1] Although it could be argued that a significant part of the motivation behind Twitterās actions is a desire to avoid state retribution. LĆØse-majestĆ© laws donāt have to be written to be enforced.
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Yes it is. And when I created this thread I explicitly opened the topic to both legal and moral and social discussion. Youāre entirely within the scope of topic to discuss freedom of expression issues beyond the scope of the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
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I think a lot of these people are missing a key distinction. Twitter said they would ban people for hoping for the death of the president. They are totally good with celebrating death that has already happened or threatening to cause a dead. You see, 100% consistent. /s
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Iād like to add another tweet to that set:
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