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Weaponizing the First Amendment: How Free Speech Became a Conservative Cudgel
NY Times ^ | 6/30/18 | Adam Liptak

Posted on 06/30/2018 12:43:54 PM PDT by Libloather

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To: Libloather

Elana Kagen is dumb as a toad. Anything that doesn’t fit the straightjacket of liberal speech is to be considered “weaponized”.

When is the last time a Democrat president nominated a “leaning” conservative?

Never.

So why does the Left / New York Times get their panties in a wad when a Republican gets to nominate a justice nominated by a previous Republican?


41 posted on 06/30/2018 3:20:22 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Defeat David Trone")
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To: Libloather
To the contrary, free speech reinforces and amplifies injustice, Catharine A. MacKinnon, a law professor at the University of Michigan, wrote in “The Free Speech Century,” a collection of essays to be published this year.

“Once a defense of the powerless, the First Amendment over the last hundred years has mainly become a weapon of the powerful,” she wrote. “Legally, what was, toward the beginning of the 20th century, a shield for radicals, artists and activists, socialists and pacifists, the excluded and the dispossessed, has become a sword for authoritarians, racists and misogynists, Nazis and Klansmen, pornographers and corporations buying elections.”

What a load of PURE CRAP!!. Look at Hollywood. Look at ANTIFA. Look at restaurants throwing out people of the "wrong" persuasion. Typical bullshit. Accuse the other side of what your side is actually doing.

42 posted on 06/30/2018 3:24:48 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Defeat David Trone")
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

I like!


43 posted on 06/30/2018 3:47:46 PM PDT by gogeo (No justice, no peace.)
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To: Eddie01

I can dream that after Kennedyis properly replaced, Kagan, Ginsberg and the Big Soto will all step down rather than have to remain as the ineffectual minority through the rest of their terms.


44 posted on 06/30/2018 4:24:26 PM PDT by arthurus (h)
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To: Libloather

Note to the NYTimes: Well at least it’s an actual Constitutional amendment and not the Liberals so-called “right to privacy” from which they constructed the “right” to an abortion - neither one written in the Constitution.


45 posted on 06/30/2018 4:48:53 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Libloather

I love it when the New York Times and other organizations that work in free speech and free press begin lecturing us about the evils of such things and tell us there should be limits on it.


46 posted on 06/30/2018 4:55:34 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Libloather

Maybe we could get vegan restaurants to advertise for steakhouses since it doesn’t violate the First Amendment.


47 posted on 06/30/2018 5:29:35 PM PDT by guitar Josh
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Uh, how about YJCMTSU?

Do I need to translate?

;^)


48 posted on 06/30/2018 5:46:26 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: elcid1970

I have a pretty good idea. That one could get worn out.


49 posted on 06/30/2018 7:24:47 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Steely Tom
"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."

I do love that one from Truman.

50 posted on 06/30/2018 9:07:59 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...excepto for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: BRL
Nonsense!

Creepy nonsense.

51 posted on 06/30/2018 9:08:37 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...excepto for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

You just can’t make this stuff up!

;^)


52 posted on 06/30/2018 9:27:06 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Libloather
The irony is rich here - Catherine McKinnon? On the First Amendment? Yeah, yeah, tool of the privileged, all that. Critical Law has poached another brain.

Nothing has changed with respect to the First Amendment - it was always a bulwark against oppression. What has changed is that the feminist Left has become the oppressor. No wonder they don't like it.

53 posted on 06/30/2018 9:33:26 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Libloather

This NYT piece is Kaka.


54 posted on 07/01/2018 1:29:33 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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