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I am honestly surprised it took this long for someone to warp freedom of expression right back around to include freedom of hate speech and racist symbolism. "Tolerance of intolerance is intolerance" applies here and I hope this is where the line gets drawn.
Nah, they've been warping it that way since Obama at least, if not earlier. It's just only now they've had a rogue executive branch to back them up.
Reactionaries have been playing this game since I was in grade school. The Young Conservatives of Texas, notably on the UT college campus, had all sorts of immigrant hate events they'd run every year or two. And when someone would inevitably object or try to intervene, they engaged in a collective scream of martyrdom over their First Amendment Liberties.
None of this seemed to apply to the LGBTQ organizations, the anti-war demonstrators, Muslims, or the union organizers for staff and faculty, of course. You have the right to be a Nazi and nothing else.
I've always preferred the Inglorious Bastards approach to fascists.
You're invited to make your views known. And the rest of us are entitled to brand you with them.