[grumpygresh]

I remember in the 90s when neo Nazis held a march in heavily Jewish Skokie IL. That was when a fair amount of concentration camp survivors still lived there. You bet it was controversial and disgusting, but at the time, a fair number of liberals, and even Jewish liberals supported the Nazis right to demonstrate.

Free speech is meaningless unless it protects unpopular political speech. Do you think that any in the Islamic faith care that much about free speech? Free speech used to be in our DNA; how far we have fallen.

[gogeo]

I remember in the 90s when neo Nazis held a march in heavily Jewish Skokie IL.

I think I saw a documentary about that..."The Blues Brothers."

[boop]

@grumpy: that was the '70s.

Point well taken though.

Btw, the ACLU defended the Nazis back then.

I guaran-damn-tee you that the 2015 ACLU would be on the OTHER side.

Do you see the ACLU on the side of bakers, florists, and pizza makers on the point of "unpopular" opinions?

Nope.

[cynwoody]

I remember in the 90s when neo Nazis held a march in heavily Jewish Skokie IL. That was when a fair amount of concentration camp survivors still lived there. You bet it was controversial and disgusting, but at the time, a fair number of liberals, and even Jewish liberals supported the Nazis right to demonstrate.

That was in the 70s. One out of six residents were Holocaust survivors.

http://www.jta.org/2013/06/20/news-opinion/the-telegraph/nazis-marching-through-skokie

There were Jewish lawyers on both sides of the case.