Thread by @sunnshiiny

Lock HIM up. This is ridiculous.

US citizens: this is hate speech. It is irresponsible to allow hate speech to be used without consequence. Americans need to rethink their support of freedom to incite violence and hatred. You’d solve half your problems. Lives over liberty.

https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer/status/1317589850527322112

The problem is a restriction on individual liberty is frowned upon by Americans. But seat belt laws, speed limits, yelling fire in a crowded theatre. Those are all limits on individualism. Inciting hatred is worse than those 3 examples by magnitudes, combined. Yet it’s allowed.

People are being targeted because Americans value their liberties. How many must die before hate speech becomes a regulatory exception to the American view of freedom of speech.

Slavery used to be acceptable. Lincoln made it unacceptable. But allowed hate to remain in place.

That decision is coming back to haunt the USA.

Tolerance of differences ends when people get hurt. There is no tolerance of intolerance. Or you assure your demise. Democracy means people have to compromise to get along and maintain peace.

Now Republicans remind all they aren’t after democracy. They assert the US is a Republic. A republic is a state where the power is in the hands of the people.

Which is essentially a form of democracy.

So if Republicans don’t mean democracy, they are limiting the definition of who the people are who will hold power. Here’s a clue, they always have limited the definition to whom “we the people” refers.

Prior to Lincoln it was land owners and the owners of production.

The US hasn’t devolved into a kleptocratic oligarchic fascist state by allowing hate speech. It’s always been a fascist state.

Americans believed the mythical past; believed privileged personal experience was common; blamed the disadvantaged and vulnerable for being victims.

So now the truth is apparent. It can’t be hidden anymore. Freedom was only for those that claimed stolen land and suppressed and murdered the original inhabitants. Freedom was for those that bought and paid for indentured servants and slaves.

Freedom was won in 1776 for those of the privileged class: White wealthy men. It wasn’t for women, the middle class or the poor and enslaved. It wasn’t for non conformists, or individualists. It was always for white, wealthy men.

That’s what it means to be an originalist.

It means the desire to restore the fascist fantasy. Free markets, cheap or slave labour, no regulations. When men were kings of their domain, women served them and knew their place, social classes were well defined; some people were slaves and homogeneity ruled supreme.

That’s for whom democracy was created to serve. Not you, not me. And certainly not the female governor from Michigan.

What fools we were to believe any advances had actually been made. The ruling class fostered those beliefs by selling is what we wanted to hear.

Whispering visceral and convincing sweet liberty in our ears as they rob us blind while we visualize our mythical freedom. Except education has allowed enough of us to figure out it’s all been an elaborate fantasy sold to keep us consuming, compliant and reinforce the norms.

There has never been true democracy in any nation. It has always been limited to the ruling classes. Even Plato himself had disdain for democracy. He idolized Aristocracy, not Democracy. Seems the Republican Americans of wealth and means value aristocracy as well.

People like Kushner, MbS, Putin, Xi. They consider themselves and their social class superior and entitled to power and wealth.

The rest of us are just the enforcers or servants that keep the aristocrats amused and wealthy. We can not tolerate the intolerant & arrogant anymore.

And the first thing the US requires is a redefinition of hate speech. It needs to be banned. There are too many vulnerable people to allow hate speech. It’s bad enough most Americans believe in their own exceptionalism. Now they’re being indoctrinated in hate.