Outlawing Fascistic Racist Speech: Biblio-fetishism

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From: Charles Brown
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>Just to repeat THE OBJECTIVE, HISTORICAL  reason for make a special
exception of no First Amendment protection of fascistic racist speech is
fascistic racist speech and organization have resulted in the last five
hundred years in the genocidal usurpation of the Western Hemisphere from the
Indigenous peoples, the genocidal enslavement of Africans, worldwide
colonialism , the holocaustic genocide against the Soviets and Jews, the
genocidal war on Viet Nam, et al. Therefore, we can ban fascistic racist
speech without worry of suppressing some ideas or words that will
unexpectedly result in improvement of society.
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>That, by the way, is THE fundamental rationale for the political value of
freedom of speech upon which your argument lies entirely: that allowing free
flow of ideas that may seem bad or wrong at first will result in discovery
of ideas that turnout unexpectedly to have a positive effect in ACTIONS.
Even the liberal rationale ultimately makes this key  link between
speech/thought and action. But we can with certainty conclude that fascistic
racist ideas will not result in such unexpectedly positive actions.
>CB

That's not it, Charles.  The reason we protect freedom of speech is not for
the good of society but out of respect for the individual.  Grammatical
language is a product of consciousness, which exists only in the individual
mind, not in society as a whole.  Protecting speech means respecting
conscious thought, not promoting beneficial actions.  Consciousness, as well
as society, is intrinsically valuable.  That's the problem.  We have to
balance the rights of one against the other.

Ted