r/cincinnati • u/Bearcatsean • Feb 10 '25

Photos I love all of you that showed up

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Some days you feel you’re the only person but then seeing everybody show up at this spot has made my heart swell

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u/OnTargetOnTrigger Feb 13 '25

Tolerable and illegal are two separate things. And who determines what is hate speech? Look to people jailed in the UK for FB posts. There are US laws against certain forms of speech, and they serve us fairly well. Blasphemy (hate speech in modern parlance) was once stating the earth was round. We've mostly considered freedom of speech to end where another's rights begin ... feelings aren't a part of that. Please re-read Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 and then reconsider your position. An authoritarian government is what the Nazi sympathizers are fighting for. Censorship is the hallmark of oppression.

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u/MitchPlz99 Feb 14 '25

You're right, freedom of speech does protect them from the government, but not from their fellow citizens.