The Confederate Flag

[Gustaf]

No flags should be banned.

[Gustaf]

No flags should be banned.

Apart from the Nazi swastika.

That's a tougher one, but I am generally very sceptical about banning things, evenif I really don't like them. I usually defend Nazi's freedom of speech...doesn't mean I agree in anyway with their message, of course.

[Gustaf]

I believe that anyone has the right to display whatever flag they want, to use the N-word, and to spout hate.

I also believe that everyone else has the right to mock them for being the tiny people that they are.

outstanding.  that's how I read the first amendment also.

I agree. Excellent point.

[Gustaf]

I believe that anyone has the right to display whatever flag they want, to use the N-word, and to spout hate.

I also believe that everyone else has the right to mock them for being the tiny people that they are.

outstanding.  that's how I read the first amendment also.

I agree. Excellent point.

There are limits, though.  It is one thing to say that all Norwegians are a bunch of herring-eating block-heads.  It's quite another to advocate that people rise up in violence against Norwegians.  When hate-speech turns into inciting violence, right-to-life-and-limb takes precedence over right-to-liberty.

But otherwise, fly your Confederate flag, and fly your Nazi flag, so we know to make fun of you.

That's the way that Swedish law is made...what we call 'agitation against group', or something to that effect.