This is the point, where we letting emotions overtake rationality:
- We have a 1st Amendment.
The moment you start demanding basic speech should be outlawed, then somebody is going to demand basic speech or tangible speech you hold dear be outlawed.
Confederates lost the war to Washington, DC led country. So we should outlaw their ancestors or just random people's ability to use a flag they observe?
- Japanese lost the war to the U.S., killed U.S. soldiers including black soldiers, so when Japanese American people raise their flag, we should outlaw it too?
- Iraq, Libya, Panama, Vietnam (maybe), Korea (maybe), etc were in battle with this nation-state headquartered in Washingtin, DC..and mostly lost or draw..should we demand people go to jail for waving those flags?
Its unconstitutional to begin with, but also it leads down a scary path towards government sponsored "book burning" and adds on to the tyranny we already have creeping.
Its one thing to pressure digital cancelation, which has its nuances, but to overtly demand basic speech is illegal and criminal leads to a snowball building up more and more. That's not me saying this....that's history saying that.
We're not Germany.
You can go to jail for your literal speech in Germany. Just saying you don't like something will put you behind bars.
Somebody has to say this.
- Yall want to live in a world like that?
Emotion can fuel this situation, but you need rationality to navigate.
Cliff Notes:
My Black African Amercian ancestors didn't die to have these rights they saw their white oppressors enjoying, just so me and you as their descendants can demand we get rid of these same rights.
Not all speech is protected by the first amendment. If the flag was treated as treasonous or carrying a strong possibility to incite violence, it would not be protected.
I have heard many confed flag wavers say "The south will rise again!" If thats not a seditious statement, i dont know what is
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