Presumably posted in reaction to someone recently finding a membership form of the KKK in his grandpa’s stuff. Of course, the obligatory reaction of the I disagree with what you say, but will fight for your right to say it kind
I know this is the mildly interesting subreddit, but one thing I found hilarious is how there’s a history subreddit for supposedly cool historical pictures whose reactionary users call left wing; I tried posting pics of Vietnamese revolutionaries but they got auto-blocked, whereas pics in praise of the invading war criminals was entirely fine.
Remind that free speech absolutism wasn’t America’s thing until 1969, and it took a KKK leader being criminally charged for calls of genocide for that to happen
Clarence Brandenburg was charged by the state of Ohio for calling for a mass ethnic cleansing of black and Jewish people and SCOTUS came in to say his “rights were violated by Ohio’s statue” and that “abstract advocacy of violence cannot be punished.” Brandenburg v Ohio became landmark precedent for the most extreme interpretation of the first amendment and is the only reason previous rulings infringing on socialists and anti-war activists’ free speech were overturned
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Presumably posted in reaction to someone recently finding a membership form of the KKK in his grandpa’s stuff. Of course, the obligatory reaction of the I disagree with what you say, but will fight for your right to say it kind
I know this is the mildly interesting subreddit, but one thing I found hilarious is how there’s a history subreddit for supposedly cool historical pictures whose reactionary users call left wing; I tried posting pics of Vietnamese revolutionaries but they got auto-blocked, whereas pics in praise of the invading war criminals was entirely fine.
Oh yeah, definitely far left.
No surprises. Reddit is a propaganda tool of the Empire.
Remind that free speech absolutism wasn’t America’s thing until 1969, and it took a KKK leader being criminally charged for calls of genocide for that to happen
Clarence Brandenburg was charged by the state of Ohio for calling for a mass ethnic cleansing of black and Jewish people and SCOTUS came in to say his “rights were violated by Ohio’s statue” and that “abstract advocacy of violence cannot be punished.” Brandenburg v Ohio became landmark precedent for the most extreme interpretation of the first amendment and is the only reason previous rulings infringing on socialists and anti-war activists’ free speech were overturned