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Does the First Amendment Protect Threats and Hate Speech?
FindLaw ^ | August 21,2024 | Balrina Ahluwalia, Esq.

Posted on 09/16/2025 5:20:06 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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To: blueplum

Right. Because it all comes down to you’re willingness to work for them, when you don’t have to. Same with visiting other people’s homes. You have to visit, so you’re visiting is consent to agreeing to their limitations.


41 posted on 09/16/2025 10:21:16 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Pornography feeds abortion. Abortion is Satan's ultimate effort to hurt God. )
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To: All

What if I yell “fire” in a burning crowded theater?

A liberal will call this hate speech, the people don’t want to be upset to hear that the heat and smoke are from a fire.


42 posted on 09/17/2025 1:04:31 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (The scoffers will say where is the promise of His coming? Turn on your damn TV)
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To: Antihero101607

Good analogy.


43 posted on 09/17/2025 5:20:25 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: DoodleBob

No. The First Amendment guarantees that you can SPEAK out against the government without repercussions. It also bars government from establishing or controlling religion. That is all, that is enough.


44 posted on 09/17/2025 5:23:27 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: HYPOCRACY
WTF is hate speech?

It is speech that people in positions of power, influence, or authority hate.

45 posted on 09/17/2025 5:24:16 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Celtic Conservative
I’ve always heard it expressed as the right to wave your fist around ends at the tip of my nose.

And I have "always" argued that your right to wave your fist around ends some distance from the tip of my nose. A clear attempt to harm me justifies a self-defense response. I am not obligated to wait until actual harm has occurred before defending myself.

46 posted on 09/17/2025 5:27:06 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Jonty30

“I can only tell you what the Courts have ruled as far as the Constitution goes. In your personal space, it does not apply if you don’t want it to. “

So one can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

I still say there’s got to be more to it than that.


47 posted on 09/17/2025 5:46:45 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: KrisKrinkle

I said within reason. If you come to my house, I can insist on topics that we will not discuss. I can tell you to leave your gun at home. I can impose limitations on your rights in my house and you can decide if you will come over.


48 posted on 09/17/2025 5:52:59 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Pornography feeds abortion. Abortion is Satan's ultimate effort to hurt God. )
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To: Jonty30

“I said within reason. “

That you did...but not in a post to me. That does cast a different light.


49 posted on 09/17/2025 12:15:52 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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