tumblr, i cant believe i have to tell you this bc i was under the impression that the vast majority of us took a basic course in social studies at some point in our lives but hate speech is not protected by the first amendment and the first amendment protects you from prosecution from the gov, not other people. please learn even the most basic tenants of your government bc this “accusing antifa of suppressing free speech” horseshit has got to stop.
but for real please learn what “free speech” means as a legal concept bc a lot of you have some really bizarre ass understandings of reality and how words work
In Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942), the Supreme Court held that speech is unprotected if it constitutes “fighting words”.[27] Fighting words, as defined by the Court, is speech that “tend[s] to incite an immediate breach of the peace” by provoking a fight, so long as it is a “personally abusive [word] which, when addressed to the ordinary citizen, is, as a matter of common knowledge, inherently likely to provoke a violent reaction”.[28] Additionally, such speech must be “directed to the person of the hearer” and is “thus likely to be seen as a ‘direct personal insult’”.[29][30]
bunch of fake ass introverts you all are, cant even read a damn wikipedia paragraph
(via kalice-yuri)
