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OK if I had time to be online for more than like five minutes at a stretch, I would go through every single note on this post I made about the Tumblr boycott, and find every single asshole who said any variation of “but free speech”, and send them an ask about how the White House just called for a journalist to be fired over having stated that Trump, who has refused to sign the measure that went through both legislative houses condemning white supremacy, is a white supremacist.
That is the definition of a First Amendment violation. That is the government, literally, suppressing free speech, in an extremely direct way.
I bet you absolutely 0% of the dumbasses that think a hate group’s right to organize and incite violence is protected under the First Amendment would ever, ever stand up for a Black journalist. I bet none of them answer that ask and say “gosh you’re right, is there a petition I can sign?”
It turns out that if you tear the mask there, the tiniest bit, you see that what those people really want to protect isn’t free speech so much as, wow, you’ll never guess: white supremacy.
OK if I had time to be online for more than like five minutes at a stretch, I would go through every single note on this post I made about the Tumblr boycott, and find every single asshole who said any variation of “but free speech”, and send them an ask about how the White House just called for a journalist to be fired over having stated that Trump, who has refused to sign the measure that went through both legislative houses condemning white supremacy, is a white supremacist.
That is the definition of a First Amendment violation. That is the government, literally, suppressing free speech, in an extremely direct way.
I bet you absolutely 0% of the dumbasses that think a hate group’s right to organize and incite violence is protected under the First Amendment would ever, ever stand up for a Black journalist. I bet none of them answer that ask and say “gosh you’re right, is there a petition I can sign?”
It turns out that if you tear the mask there, the tiniest bit, you see that what those people really want to protect isn’t free speech so much as, wow, you’ll never guess: white supremacy.
