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Philly Mayor Suggests Magazine Article on Race Relations Isn't Protected by the 1st Amendment
The Volokh Conspiracy ^ | 03/18/2013 | Eugene Volokh

Posted on 03/19/2013 8:19:45 AM PDT by Pyro7480

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... obliged to publish everything ...

>> Nutter: “I ask the Commission to evaluate”

This is not an infringement. It might be anal, but not yet an infringement. Constitutional “withstanding” will prevent this from going any further. And Nutter clearly knows this.


41 posted on 03/19/2013 9:33:28 AM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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To: duffee

Its called the Justice department and it’s headed by Eric Holder. Where oh where have you been?


42 posted on 03/19/2013 9:34:13 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Williams
Next they should look into whether voting, having free thought, freedom of association - all are the same as shouting “fire” in a crowded theater.

They haven't? the shooting down of Voter ID laws, "free speech zones", tracking net use, rebirth of the "fairness doctrine"...

43 posted on 03/19/2013 9:35:00 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Gene Eric
This is not an infringement.

So this is more like strong-arming or trying to bump up his street cred

44 posted on 03/19/2013 9:36:59 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Augustinian monk

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/white-philly/

That’s the link for those who haven’t read the article. I just read it and completely agree. The article is worse than mild, it’s weak. The writer appears so timid in his approach that he sounds as though he pleading for a kinder gentler approach to race relations, for Blacks to recognize that the new Progressive Whites are not the same old more conservative Whites of previous generations.

It’s not what I would have said at all. I went to Temple in late sixties. I was part of a committee to attract more Black students to graduate school at Temple. We were not the racists that this writer likes to think that we were. At the time, the Black Panthers were just getting started, I remember them walking down the sidewalk of North Broad, five abreast with their arms linked, laughing and clearing the sidewalk in front of them. We just laughed and moved aside to let them pass as if it was a game. We treated the kids at the clinics, my friends did volunteer work at the drug rehab, gave legal advice, and volunteered at the schools. We weren’t the enemy, even after a med school student was attacked and castrated one night, while jogging on the sidewalk near the school.

What I see today, when I visit Philadelphia is an open hostility toward White people, sullen clerks who refuse to make eye contact or speak to a White person while working the cash register, airport workers who are openly hostile and try to make your visit to Philadelphia as miserable as possible, and a real fear of mayhem. Heck, my nephew was attacked and beat up at a gas station because he took too long at the gas pump.


45 posted on 03/19/2013 10:01:34 AM PDT by Eva
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"That’s the link for those who haven’t read the article. I just read it and completely agree. The article is worse than mild, it’s weak. The writer appears so timid in his approach that he sounds as though he pleading for a kinder gentler approach to race relations, for Blacks to recognize that the new Progressive Whites are not the same old more conservative Whites of previous generations."

I agree completely. I was going to say the article was tame, but weak is even better. The author pines for a more gentle, conversational "can't we all get along" time. There is so much that could be said that would have been considered incendiary starting with not describing Whites who just accepted that it was okay to be robbed and mugged and just move on, but the author didn't. Nutter must really be a nutter to consider this insipid piece to be any threat at all.

46 posted on 03/19/2013 10:10:53 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: NativeSon

“It might be anal, but not yet an infringement.”


47 posted on 03/19/2013 10:23:02 AM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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To: Truth29

I believe that Nutter may be preparing people to defend Obama’s new appointee to head the Dept of Labor, the man who refused to prosecute the Black Panthers for voter intimidation in Philadelphia. Obama has been weak on standing up for Blacks so far and we can expect all sorts of actions on the part of his minions to rally up the Blacks to vote in the mid-term elections. Accusations of racism will be the battle cry and Perez was going to take the lead at the Dept of Labor, demanding all sorts of affirmative action policies and going after industry for imaginary racist policies.

While Holder has stated that we (the country) needs to have a conversation on race, he means a scolding lecture.


48 posted on 03/19/2013 10:44:46 AM PDT by Eva
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To: okie01

The only negative comments were made by immigrants (a Russian woman and a Panamanian woman), not by whites born and raised in the U.S.


49 posted on 03/19/2013 11:02:09 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Pyro7480
Nutter says Magazine Article on Race Relations Isn't Protected by the 1st Amendment..

The New Normal:


50 posted on 03/19/2013 1:44:40 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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