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thenewgreen  ·  4443 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Repeat after me: speech is protected in the US...

Also, you can click on "cliffelam" and then on to "comments" and get his comment history. I would be interested to know the comments that make him a racist. Truly. Bring it.





cgod  ·  4443 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well shit, your right about one thing. Cliff isn't' the voters rights racist. Was totally some Hootsbox comments I had thought were cliffs. Sincerely my bad and I apologies. When combined with some comments he has posted about Obama and Holder that I think are on the verge of totally irrational and those two guys being the most prominent black members of this administration I sensed some good old fashioned Republican I'm not racist just my polices and positions happen to be racist traditionalism.

Really, I'm eating a huge turd at the moment, there is no way to fully show the amount of crow pie I'm realize I'm eating.

And now on to the racism. Protesting the abridgment of the chair hanging racist speech as a first amendment violation when the only thing he is facing is other citizens exercising their own constitutionally derived right to free speech is something that a you would generally expect a piece of shit racist to do. The idea that speech by a racist deserves the protection of the constitution, but that the speech of people protesting the racist speech should deserve less protection is a pretty racist position to hold.

Now maybe Cliff has an idea that speech that protest other speech should be abridged because it has a suppresive effect on a persons ability to freely express themselves (better speak first or you are violation someones rights by voicing your opinion), in which case Cliff isn't a racist, he is just confused about the fact that all speech is equal as long as it's not speech that is specifically against the law (which none of this speech was). This seems like a pretty confusing position to hold. Cliff seems like he is at least reasonably smart guy who is concerned with things like law and constitutional rights. It is surprising to see a reasonably smart guy hold a position like this if he doesn't hold some other irrational position that conflicts with what would otherwise seem like his values, such as being a racist.

Maybe I have gone too far, and have ruined any chance of working out why Cliff thinks we need to shelter the racist chair hanger from the speech of his fellow citizens. It really would be worth it, to find out why he has taken the position that peoples speech should be curtailed to preserve the ease of the chair hanging racist.