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by casefields 59 days ago
Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms: There is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

>[The idea that the government may restrict] speech expressing ideas that offend … strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.”

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The First Amendment means the Federal government has to allow a Nazi to speak, but we the people can still punch them in the mouth.