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Texas GOP executive committee rejects proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers (www.texastribune.org)

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Some members of the committee said such a ban, proposed two months after a prominent conservative activist was caught meeting with a famous white supremacist, might be a “slippery slope” or too vague.

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[–] xkforce 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Free speech and freedom of association are not unlimited rights. There are still a couple things that you can't do like yell fire in a crowded movie theater or incite violence etc. Anything that poses an immediate and forseeable lethal danger to others is going to be non-protected speech and association. And arguably NAZI ideology falls into that camp given one of its stated goals is ethnic cleansing. The only real defense NAZIs have is to quibble over what the word "immediate" means.