crowfeathers posted:

as well as the annexation of Hungary.

Obdicut posted:

Unluckyimmortal posted:

Again, why? There is no governmental apparatus which I trust to tamper further with the first amendment in any way, never mind actually enforcing a hate speech law.

Geokinesis posted:

If only there were other countries with Hate Speech laws that you could base them off.

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The Court upheld an Illinois law making it illegal to publish or exhibit any writing or picture portraying the "depravity, criminality, unchastity, or lack of virtue of a class of citizens of any race, color, creed or religion." Court membership

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First Amendment, as applied through the Fourteenth, protected a newspaper from being sued for libel in state court for making false defamatory statements about the official conduct of a public official, because the statements were not made with knowing or reckless disregard for the truth. Supreme Court of Alabama reversed and remanded.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

I call fascism incoherent not solely because it's got a lot of different, at times contradictory flavors that have existed here or there, but rather that I've never come across any form of fascism that was internally coherent. This is one of the great strengths, I think, of the Eco essay I linked a few pages back, where he lists those things he thinks (and I agree) are common to all forms of fascism, and especially points out how several contradict one another. The anti-intellectualism and rural nostalgia(1) coupled with a fetish for technology, particular of a military(2). The shifting nature of the Enemy, however defined, as simultaneously both menacingly fierce and laughably incompetent. Defining life as lived for struggle(3) while at the same time promising an eventual utopia(4) one the Enemy is defeated, in which no further struggle will be needed (this point in particular reminds me of O'Brien upbraiding Winton Smith in the Ministry of Love in 1984 about how the fascists, as The Party's ancestors, came close but got things wrong). Privileging acts of will over reasoned thought.(5) The worship of heroism(6) coupled with the sublimation, bordering at times on obliteration, of the individual.(7)

Berke Negri posted:

Hell, so many native cultures were wiped out in Europe either through war or acculturation it's not too dissimilar -- you just have to push the clock back another 1500 years from the American discovery. Nationalism is all kind of a big lie where you arbitrarily put your finger on a timeline and go ", here. Here is where we became X people who are identified by y and look like z." but no one really thought in those terms until very recently.