Posted on 01/10/2015 7:37:47 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
"We think Texas was right to reject the Confederate plates, but that North Carolina should have issued the abortion rights plates. How can this be? Are we merely siding with liberals in both cases? No."
Methinks the two professors who wrote those lines in a New York Times op-ed appearing today doth protest too much. Their column opines on a case before the Supreme Court deciding the circumstances under which states can refuse to issue vanity license plates.
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Free speech double standard. Ping to Today show list.
Free Speech — to Progressives — has always meant shouting down opposing viewpoints.
No more than the Daughters of the American Revolution are anti-British.
It's a bunch of people who have found an interesting historical link between them, and they hang out and research that link.
History, family, community. Those used to be things worth celebrating in America.
If Progressives can’t shout down or otherwise silence the opposition, they will spare no effort to try to completely destroy it. For example, Conservative opposition to homosexual marriage. Gun Rights. Etc.
It must really suck to be a liberal. Nothing makes them happy.
Typo. They meant YES.
When you think the world owes you a living, there's never enough of anything.
NYT recommending speech stifling regulations with, of course, an exception for speech supporting their political viewpoint.
NYT recommending speech stifling regulations with, of course, an exception for speech supporting their political viewpoint.
The basis of their argument (”strong government interest in...”) is the VERY REASON we have a 1st amendment. They argue that government should be allowed to advocate its interests, and reject the things it’s not interested in. Of course, it’s questionable to begin with as to why the government has an “interest” in abortion.
At least they are being consistently lockstep liberals.
I loathe those who attempt to erase history and rob Southerners of our heritage.
The men who fought for the cause of the South were honorable and patriotic.
Camp: Grimes co. Greys
One of the key issues on the revolutionary left is the degree to which they are willing to ally with “liberal” or “bourgeois progressive” groups.
They don’t need to “side with” liberals to independently and automatically take the same side as them.
I agree.
I don’t think I would want those plates on my car.
Absolutely! When you cease to celebrate such things, you surrender both your heritage & the bases for building a constructive future.
The studied disrespect for the Southern heritage is a threat to the restoration of good feelings between the States; a drift back towards the chaos of the terrible conflict that virtually destroyed the noble handiwork of America's founders.
But please understand that this breakdown of mutual respect is a result of deliberate efforts to undermine; it is indeed the result of efforts to promote ill feelings among us, by those who despise the American tradition. (See Civil War, Reconstruction & Creating Hate In America Today.)
William Flax
First, vanity plates suck. They are just a scam for states to raise extra money. Leave the plates cold and neutral.
Second, if you are going to let license plates be used to advance causes and express opinions, then let ALL opinions be expressed. Ugly ones, dangerous ones, stupid ones, wrong ones, obscene ones, all of it.
Are we free or are we not?
I am going to make it a point to go get a plate with the MS state flag on it now, just to pizz the crybabies off.
I like your style!
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