'Hate will never prevail.' Residents confront group displaying swastika flags near I-75
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"The protest, while very offensive, was not unlawful," a press release from the Evendale Police Department said.

Summary

A group displaying swastika flags on an I-75 overpass in Evendale, Ohio, was confronted by local residents, leading to tensions and a heavy police presence.

Residents pushed past police, seized a flag, and forced the demonstrators to retreat into a U-Haul truck.

Officials, including Cincinnati’s mayor and Hamilton County’s sheriff, condemned the demonstration.

The Jewish Federation and NAACP also spoke out, questioning where the demonstrators came from. The NAACP suggested the current administration’s policies may have emboldened the group.

No arrests were made.

  • Kecessa
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    17 hours ago

    If you notice, the discussion has been about the law from the get go, not enforcement (although in this case this specific law was enforced properly). I was correcting someone who said that free speech doesn’t protect hate speech in the US, but it does.

    • rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      I was correcting someone who said that free speech doesn’t protect hate speech in the US, but it does.

      Yes, I agree, you are correct on this point. Where you are wrong, and where I was correcting you, was that you were saying hate speech is not violence.

      Hate speech is violence, Nazism is violence, but it’s protected violence, not because of any morality or value around free speech, but because the US is already partly a Nazi state.

      • Kecessa
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        2 hours ago

        It’s not violence in the eyes of the law, which is the point of view we were talking about until you jumped in, if you want to have a conversation about that then go ahead, start a conversation about how “free speech law is wrong and hate speech is violent and should be banned” and I’ll be on your side, but this is not this conversation.