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Civil Liberties

mahatmakanejeeves

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Thu May 19, 2022, 03:47 PM

May 2022

If you come back at free speech arguments with “You can’t shout fire in a crowded theater”, I’m gonna need you to go all the way and endorse jailing people who publicly oppose a wartime draft, since that’s the ruling in which Oliver Wendell Holmes coined this particular metaphor.

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1A: I protect hate speech, incendiary speech, and screaming "fire" in a crowded theater, unless ... [View all] mahatmakanejeeves May 2022 OP

unless it is intended to and likely to cause imminent lawless action unweird May 2022 #1

One more thing: mahatmakanejeeves May 2022 #2

The actual quote from Schenck v United States (1919) is rsdsharp May 2022 #3