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Is 'Let's go Brandon!' a form of hate speech?
The Hill ^ | 11/02/2021 | JOE CONCHA

Posted on 11/02/2021 6:44:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

"Let's go Brandon!" got its start exactly one month ago at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, courtesy of an NBC Sports reporter who was interviewing driver Brandon Brown after he won his first Xfinity Series race. A crowd behind Brown was chanting "F*** Joe Biden." The reporter claimed the crowd was actually chanting "Let's go Brandon." And, thanks to social media, it went viral in a hurry.

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To: hole_n_one
You should read it.

Come on...This is FR. :)

41 posted on 11/02/2021 7:19:47 AM PDT by xp38
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We could just change it to “Let’s Go Brawando” and they would still freak out. So we then change it to “Let’s Go Harold” and they would scream that “Harold” is simply “Brandon” and it means the same thing.

Buckling under to them, apologizing, or any modification based on their objections is a bottomless pit.


42 posted on 11/02/2021 7:20:38 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think the “F*** Joe Biden” and “Let’s Go Branden” chants are inappropriate, but where was The Hill, NYT, WP, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc. when vile things were being said about President Trump? I don’t think it would be much of a stretch to say they even encouraged it with their endless talk of Trump = Hitler.


43 posted on 11/02/2021 7:21:29 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: budj

That pic killed her “career” last I heard about this loser she was battling cancer.


44 posted on 11/02/2021 7:23:51 AM PDT by bigfootbob (ALL Biden VOTERS have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS….Ann Archy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, I hate Joe Biden. By definition, any verbalization of that emotion is “hate speech”. Sue me.


45 posted on 11/02/2021 7:26:00 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I guess it is. If I say it I am expressing my hatred for Joe Biden in much the same way Robert Den Niro expressed his hatred of Trump at the Tony award show.


46 posted on 11/02/2021 7:27:58 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I saw a post earlier, might have linked from Twitter, but it was a guy wearing a **** Trump shirt complaining about how Let’s Go Brandon was offensive.


47 posted on 11/02/2021 7:33:15 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (You are not a horse, you are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Where were these same people when President Trump was President. Oh that’s right they were saying the worse things ever, and openly admitted they hated Trump.

Now they can’t handle it when their boy is getting criticism.

These leftists are the biggest hypocrites.


48 posted on 11/02/2021 7:33:19 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Leftists control freaks are mad because its shows the world does not like Biden like the control media like to falsely claim.


49 posted on 11/02/2021 7:34:52 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It is. It’s code for, “I hate what has happened to my country.”


50 posted on 11/02/2021 7:35:04 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Robert De Niro saying F Trump live on television is OK though.

I seem to recall Limp D!ck DeNiro saying he wanted to punch him (Donald Trump) in the face.

51 posted on 11/02/2021 7:35:14 AM PDT by DaBroasta
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They should identify the reporter, this will be the highlight of her career.


52 posted on 11/02/2021 7:36:14 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course it is, just ask the Left. They are great at defining hate speech. Recent examples of hate speech exposed by Leftists include, MAGA, votes for Trump, the US flag, the Constitution, laws restricting abortion, the Bible, criticism of CRT in schools, the most secure and accurate voting system in the history of the world, etc. So basically, any criticism of democrats and their agenda is hate, while any support of anything else is also hate.


53 posted on 11/02/2021 7:44:28 AM PDT by robel
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sorry, insulting a White male doesn’t break any hate crime laws.

Hate crime laws were created to criminalize anything a White says or does, or doesn’t say or doesn’t do, and to set free non-Whites who attack Whites.


54 posted on 11/02/2021 7:47:09 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Made a Let's Go Brandon! face mask. Showing my disdain for the pope's new squeeze. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How about calling DJT and his supporters NAZI’s for 4 years and fascists’? They are the nazi’s and fascists’.


55 posted on 11/02/2021 7:54:08 AM PDT by Singermom
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is NO SUCH THING as “hate speech”!

Only FREE speech.


56 posted on 11/02/2021 8:02:27 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

it’s called POLITICAL speech... like you always whine about


57 posted on 11/02/2021 8:05:45 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

These shitlib rats have for decades called normal Americans every name in the book and then some. Listen to them squee like the rats the rats they are when they get even the smallest dose of the medicine they’ve been dishing out for years. Pour it on, folks.


58 posted on 11/02/2021 8:06:21 AM PDT by Noumenon (Black flag American. KTF)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
So, Kathy Griffin holding up a severed head of Trump, Peter Fonda wishing his son was locked in a cage with pedophiles and all the lies about Trump being a racist aren't examples of hate speech but Let's Go Brandon is?
59 posted on 11/02/2021 8:16:56 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hate Deep State.

It’s a fair cop.


60 posted on 11/02/2021 8:18:28 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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