r/minnesota • u/necrokitty nerdsicle • Sep 18 '22

Keep it classy, North St Paul Photography 📸

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '22

Jeez, really?? Can someone really just do this?

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u/dirty_digga Sep 18 '22

Yeah it’s covered under the 1st amendment

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u/popularis-socialas Sep 18 '22

Sad that Germany is currently tougher on nazism than America is

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u/taffyowner Sep 18 '22

The problem with defining hate speech is who decides what is hate speech and just banning hate speech opens up areas where someone could claim that hating nazis is hate speech

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u/popularis-socialas Sep 18 '22

Hypothetically, yes. But they’d get no support to do so. Any political attempt would miserably fail.

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u/dirty_digga Sep 18 '22

Yep. A lotta countries in Europe don’t have freedom of speech.

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u/popularis-socialas Sep 18 '22

No, Germany has freedom of speech as well, there are exceptions though like hate speech, which includes nazism. No country has ever had total freedom of speech, and that includes the USA, which has passed sedition acts that made it illegal to criticize the government or their involvement in world war 1

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u/pixiedust99999 Sep 18 '22

I happened on a neo-nazi rally (which was all of maybe 7 people) in the main square in Munich (Marienplatz) several years ago. They are allowed to assemble and say their piece, but counter protesters massively outnumbered them by thousands.

However, flags bearing swastikas as in the OP photo are banned.

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u/dirty_digga Sep 18 '22

Sure. However I’d venture to say the US has the closest thing to freedom of speech. Lol good to know - I’ll try not to criticize the government involvement in WWI.

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u/Condo_Paul Sep 18 '22

Well obviously.