Protection from a civil suit is why it is smart for an employer to not tell you, or to lie, about why you’re being let go, even though they have the legal right to let you go.
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Just because it FEELS like it SHOULD be true, doesn’t make it true. The First Amendment simply has nothing to do with employment law, except in special cases where the government is also the employer.
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There’s an old joke about how the ideal Nazi is blond like Hitler, tall like Goebbels, and fit like Göring. 
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And when we breed, we’ll get a tiny one for the baby. Then we’ll have the Third Reich.
That’s bullshit.
Despite freeze peach absolutists claims, everyone’s freedom ends where others are harmed. I don’t need to be a lawyer to recognise this. There is no such thing as a god-given right to harm others. In fact, there are no god-given rights, and even the basic human rights are agreed upon to be self-evident.
The rest are questions for the courts, up to the supreme court. And that is also true for Nazi symbols Nazi symbols could be outlawed, even in the US, if society decided so.
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I hope you’re right. But if an employer did say “wear a swastika or you’re fired”, and you refuse, and they fire you, what laws have been broken?
OHSA workplace safety?
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Or making new protections via several amendments to That Piece of Paper!
They have been banned from all Walmarts for a year. I guess they will just starve.
“The Marshall Police Department were called to the Walmart after the couple were issued trespass notices. The notices mean they are not allowed in any Walmart facility for at least a year.”
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-supporters-banned-walmart-nazi-flag-masks-1520538
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I will never NOT heart that gif!
“sic semper illegitimi nazi”
(thus always to nazi bastards!)
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Shouldn’t it be sic semper illegitimae nazii?
(As one would expect a dative plural, just like tyrannis?)
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Do you mean “that’s false”, or “that may be true, but it’s a shitty state of affairs and needs to change”?
If the latter, fair enough. But if it’s the former, you’re wrong. Hate speech does not fall under one of the narrowly-defined exceptions to the 1st Amendment: see, for example, the relevant section of this article by a noted 1st-Amendment lawyer.
That could change, but it would require either a radical reversal of a century’s development of 1st-Amendment jurisprudence, or a constitutional amendment.
A swastika is not “politics”
The brown shirt is a “nice” touch
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yes, that’s more like it.
thank you!
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And yet, slavery in the U.S. had a Christian basis.
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Largely correct, but as we’re seeing now, a lot of the things the founders envisioned as checks on overreach by various branches of government (mostly the executive) have since evolved to be anything but. Impeachment and the electoral college are great examples, and we have seen their failure in real time. The electoral college was supposed to guard against a demagogue’s election because it was presumed the electors would be statesmen, instead of merely people chosen to exercise the state electorate’s will. As we saw in 2016, instead of guarding against a demagogue, it elected one because the Dumb States had more electoral votes than the States with a Clue…
And if a demagogue did get elected, impeachment by the house (check) and conviction by the senate (uhhh) were supposed to ensure that he wouldn’t stay in power long. The conversion of the senate from a body chosen by state legislatures (and thus somewhat insulated from direct popular politics) to a body elected directly by the people has the benefit of democratic legitimacy, but it has also rendered impeachment a largely toothless threat when the president’s party holds more than 1/3 of the seats.
So yeah–there are some fundamental structural problems with the Constitution in addition to the problems with its interpretation.
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For the love of gawd please don’t encourage them. They’re already doing that. And this Jew is really, REALLY fed up with having his history goysplained to him by Jew-haters.
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I know what kind of probing I’d recommend.
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Heck, no. Sorry if it came across that way. I’m assuming they don’t read the bbs comment thread, so I won’t have given them any ideas. It was more of a, “huh, if that really was the point you were trying to make…” thought exercise.
To be clear, I don’t actually think that was the point they were trying to make.
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