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Democrats aren't the ones on a book banning crusade.
Nice attempt at a both-sides though.
Republicans are banning age-appropriate books about gender identity and sexuality from schools and public libraries, yes. And it seems to me, a non-attorney, that it's a clear 1A violation. I'm not disputing that at all. This is terrible, deeply harmful, and also wildly discriminatory against LGBTQ+ children.
But then you have California--a Democratic supermajority--trying to legislate unconstitutional 1A violations in regards to the internet. See here; you will note that courts have so far enjoined the law from going into effect because it's a massive 1A violation for both minors--since children do have limited 1A protections--and adults. And before yous insist that that's just California being California, no, New York state is trying to do the same sort of thing, all because, "won't someone think of the children?!?" IMO, attempts to censor the whole internet because something might, potentially, 'harm' children through mere existence, is, arguably, worse, since that imposes significantly more limitations on children--and on adults!--then a school or public library.
I can not tell you how many times I've had to explain to liberals that there is no hate-speech exception to 1A, and that yes, advocating for genocide of the Jews is legally-protected speech that the gov't can not censor.
Yes, you can legally say almost anything you want as an opinion (defamation is a thing however). Court of public opinion is totally different, and the public can totally choose to "cancel" you if they wish.
These guys always crack me up. They want their racial epithets and hate speech, and also want to be protected from any and all consequences of using such speech.
Hey, idiots - free speech does not mean freedom from consequences. There are always consequences for your actions. Get it through your thick skull, it’s shitty and wrong to be racist, and people will not like you for being racist when you act out, period.
I can’t believe this isn’t well understood but here we are. Fuckin snowflakes.
Of course. And that's fine, I've got no objection to that at all. If I say something that's deeply offensive and hateful, of course I deserve to be censured by people.
And yeah, I've been banned from Twitter and Reddit; the former for advocating the guillotining of billionaires, and the former for suggesting arson as a solution to Nazis. They're both privately-owned spaces, and so that's fine.
But that's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about legitimate government censorship, and criminal penalties for politically unpopular speech. We've seen that in, for instance, in anti-BDS laws, which have passed in both Republican and Democratic states, and we're seeing it with Republicans censoring what books libraries can have, and Dems trying to censor what children can see on Facebook.
Do any of them hold an elected office?
I'll take some randos on the Internet against genocide vs actual elected officials trying to ban pronouns any day of the week.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Republicans%20ban%20pronouns&ko=-1&ia=web
Both sides are not the same no matter how badly you want to pretend they are.