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by smotched 336 days ago
Could you give examples of when a U.S. citizens speech rights were legally taken away? Lets go with one of your examples of "When sexual minorities want to speak". Please elaborate.

None of the examples you gave are actually examples of speech being restricted. Its people (sometimes politicians) freely voicing their opinions on others speech, that is not restriction.
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saghm 336 days ago
Literally in the last week, the Supreme Court ruled that books featuring gay couples need to be opt-out in schools. They've quite literally taken the stance that someone literally just seeing the existence of a gay couple in a children's picture book is a violation of their freedom.
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anamax 336 days ago
> They've quite literally taken the stance that someone literally just seeing the existence of a gay couple in a children's picture book is a violation of their freedom.

No.

They've taken the stance that parents get to decide what books their kids see.

Other parents are free to make a different decision.

Do you really think that there's a "right" to force others to read books that you choose?

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 335 days ago
> They've taken the stance that parents get to decide what books their kids see.

So why draw the line at books depicting gay couples, rather than literally all books? Because this has nothing to do with the ban, except for being a “family-friendly” bullshit justification.

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smotched 335 days ago
They didn't draw the line there, that's case that was brought forth. That's how the courts work.
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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 335 days ago
> that's case that was brought forth

That's not how the Supreme Court works. They are selective about the cases they hear. Especially looking at a 6-3 ruling with this court it's clear to see this was an ideological selection.

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smotched 335 days ago
So that case was not brought forth the supreme court for them to rule on? They rule on that specific case.
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saghm 335 days ago
Other parents making a different decision doesn't matter if the schools find it virtually impossible to have these books because of the logistical requirements of allowing kids to leave the classroom every time certain books are read.

> Do you really think that there's a "right" to force others to read books that you choose?

Do I really think that public schools have a right to assign reading of certain books for classes? Is this even a real question? How do you think English classes work?

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