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by legulere 3835 days ago
Which is just free speech. Rights stop where other rights get infringed. Free speech also has its bounds in the USA. You can't scream "fire" when there's no fire and cause panic, you can't post (nude) photos of someone without their consent, you can't call for someone to get murdered. In Europe you just also can't call for crimes to be committed against ethnicities, adherents to some religion etc.

I always find the american worship of the constitution as strange. It's a bit like people that try to take the bible literal and forget to think about the actual meaning behind the words. Also the constitution is not a holy scripture. Several things in it have been turned around by 180°. We have way better documents to express the basic human rights.

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In Europe you just also can't call for crimes to be committed against ethnicities, adherents to some religion etc.

Or argue that Muslim immigration is harmful (http://www.reuters.com/article/people-france-bardot-muslims-...), or correctly state the Bible's position on homosexuality (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7668448/Christian-p...).