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James Brinkruff's avatar

Just a question of these antisemitism issues. Can we differentiate between what someone is allowed to say and what someone is allowed to do? Like the discrimination against racial comments vs discrimination based on race. I can make stupid racial comments but if I discriminate against people based on race that is a different story? Am I correct?

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Penny Adrian's avatar

Of course you are correct. Many of these campus antisemites have direct contact with terrorist organizations and actively enable them, yet somehow FIRE thinks this is a speech issue rather than an immigration issue about enabling terrorism. I still support FIRE, but I think they missed the mark on this one.

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jabster's avatar

AFAIK the ONLY FCC case law specifically identifying language not to be said over the public airwaves is FCC v Pacifica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_v._Pacifica_Foundation

That's the George Carlin "seven dirty words" case.

Of course, this doesn't apply to cable or the Internet.

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