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What if the "hokey pokey" is what it's all about?
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Durham, North Carolina
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Not applicable in Canada but a good lesson I'm discourse.
ÜT: 53.542319,-113.494597
Wikipedia: "The Citizens' Councils used economic tactics against African Americans whom they considered as supportive of desegregation and voting rights, or for belonging to the NAACP; the tactics included 'calling in' their mortgages, denying loans and business credit, and boycotting black-owned businesses. In some cities, the Councils published lists of names of NAACP supporters and signers of anti-segregation petitions in local newspapers in order to encourage economic retaliation. For instance, in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1955, the Citizens' Council arranged for the names of 53 signers of a petition for school integration to appear in a local paper. Soon afterward, the petitioners lost their jobs and had their credit cut off." -- Apparently, no free speech rights were violated.
chicago, il
This strikes me as an 'argument from definition'. But the definition itself is contested. Lot of rights don't work this way, for instance there are non-retaliation laws asociated with many rights (especially in labor law -- say the right to marry includes the right, for the most part, not to get fired for getting married).
Northern Virginia
I'd love to post this at the end of every news site's comments policy.
Boston, MA
I have to save this for future postings, everywhere
It's dawning on me that wikipedia needs Tl;DR links pointing to the relevant xkcd pages.
New York, NY
You haven't lived until you've shared an XKCD online
New York
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Eventually, XKCD will be the answer for every ridiculous argument.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Alt text: I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.
07974
THIS X1000
Yet another xkcd that will be reposted and reposted until the sun burns out.
Bartlett, IL
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Atlanta, GA
This was basically designed to be passive-aggressively linked to in mailing lists/forums/IRC...
north bay, California
Alt text: I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.
Oakland, CA
Durham, North Carolina