anon_
1d ago
It's a particular subset of the left that is also gunning for the other half of the left.
I claim it remains to the benefit of the nation (not to mention the median mottizen) that they not succeed at shivving the institutional left. I guess we'll see in Michigan how it goes with AES, although I heard Gretch is going to line up against him.
anon_
1d ago
result in Minnesota's disorderly conduct statute being nullified with regard to offenses that are limited to speech and no other disruptive behavior.
This is "as applied", so it would only cover specific applications.
There is also, perhaps unfortunately, the "fighting words" doctrine in which speech that any reasonable person would anticipate to imminently cause affray can be criminalized, at least as to directly uttering them in public (as opposed to, say, on a podcast). It's not totally beyond reason to imagine that racial slurs could be considered in that frame.
anon_
5d ago
I suppose I'm on team "let kids have interests." Probably because that's the kind of attitude my parents took towards me and it seems to have worked out fine.
This is overly simplistic. Let kids have interests, unless those interests are truly beyond the pale. Everyquest, Star Trek, soccer, whatever. But not toasterfucking.
And indeed I think it's worthwhile for parents to teach children where appreciating something begins and where it ends up into fandom.
anon_
5d ago
Does it? I don't think the Israeli police can wander directly through the center of Gaza City and arrest whoever they like.
But even moreso, many military forces have held a foreign territory without automatically annexing it to their state. The US occupation of Japan went on, and the solution was a Japanese government, not Japanese representation in the US system.
It's even more outlandish given that such annexation would be against the manifest will of both populations. It runs directly contrary to any norm of self determination to tell both the Gazans and the Israelis that we've just gone and decided that it's now a part of the Israeli state.
Given how quickly the same elements would claim rape in equivalent-or-more coercive situations in other contexts, I think it's reasonable here.
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