The US House of representatives is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan.”
If anybody votes against this, they’ll say they voted to support Colorado terrorist attack.
Update (from comments): A Nitter link to the Ryan Grim tweet in the screenshot:
https://
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#USpol #FreePalestine #Genocide #Israel #Antisemitism #Fascism
#Palestine @[email protected] @[email protected]
Reminder that the KKK still hasn’t been outlawed.
@Rom that is free speech and protected by being white.
As someone who is Jewish this is insanity.
I SAY DEATH TO THE FASCISTS AND THE ZIONIST TYRANTS, I WANT NO MORE OF THE LIES
DEATH TO THE TYRANTS
DEATH TO REACTION
DEATH TO DECEIT
I’m Jewish, technically Israeli. and after what I witnessed in my years there:
FREE PALESTINE
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA
I have visted the occupation, in my time there I saw inhuman evils and indescribable horrors
DEATH TO OCCUPATION
DEATH COLONIALISM
DEATH TO GENOCIDE
silly leftists, free speech is for racists
Old Soviet Joke.
Two agents meet in a bar in Germany on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The CIA agent says to the KGB agent, “Why do you continue to support the Soviet Union? You have no freedom in your country. Come to the United States. In our country, we can criticize our leaders. I can say ‘Death to Ronald Reagan’ and nobody will stop me.”
The KGB agent shakes his head, smiling. “Why would I want to travel all the way to America in order to say that? In Moscow, we also say ‘Death to Ronald Reagan’ whenever we please.”
Another one: A CIA agent and a KGB agent meet at a bar after talking for a while the KGB agent says to the CIA agent „You know one thing we really admire back in the USSR is your propaganda it’s really top notch“ the CIA agent looks confused and asks, „What propaganda?“
It’s interesting, because Americans will be laughing at an entirely different interpretation of the joke, like “lol the Soviets think American reality is American propaganda because our lives are so great.”
Getting it out while I still can: Free Palestine!
@Feathercrown US is the only country on earth that prosecutes it’s citizens for criticizing anoter country and call for freedom of a third.
it puts a whole new meaning to "land of the free’
Have you heard of Germany?
What about Germany?
German politicians and media are absolutely bloodthirsty psychos, they will go at any length to shield the Zionists and make sure they’ll be able to finish their genocide. Plus the whole Iran thing backing Israel‘s illegal attack while being all "Woman Life Freedom“.
Yeah why are you telling me though I’m aware
Congress can deem whatever they want, I’m gonna keep saying Free Palestine until Palestine is free.
Meanwhile, literal nazis are allowed to say “Blood and soil!” or “Jews will not replace us!” and the House will say “There’s good people on both sides.”
Double plus bad
It would be doubleplusungood, negative words like “bad” were discouraged
so a slogan, that involves a semitic country with actual semitic roots, is antisemitic? Can’t make this shit up.
Lol land of free speech
Free speech protections are still in place, and this is why they are important. This resolution can’t prevent people from saying it, just signals that the current house of representatives wants to.
I’m not saying they couldn’t be stronger. There is a huge problem with abusing deportations this way, and other forms of legislating speech by enforcement. But please consider how much worse things can get, and what barriers still remain between here and there. That it isn’t a crime to say “Free Palestine”, that it isn’t a simple matter of declaring it a racist slogan to make it a crime, does mean something.
But please consider how much worse things can get, and what barriers still remain between here and there.
The barriers are largely logistical. And I believe Trump’s allies in Silicon Valley are closing the gap between what they want and what they can practically achieve.
That it isn’t a crime to say “Free Palestine”
If you can be targeted, arrested, and deported for doing a thing, it is a crime in every way that matters.
I guess its nice they didn’t subject him to torture, indefinite detention, or summary execution. But given how many people are being sent to international black sites and concentration camps, that’s hardly a given.
The question isn’t whether things can get worse. The question is whether there are any avenues left for things to get better. I’m increasingly pessimistic, given the current state of play.
If you can be targeted, arrested, and deported for doing a thing, it is a crime in every way that matters.
To the extent that this does not apply to citizens at scale, there are many more people who are not effectively silenced. If they pass laws that are upheld and able to effectively silence everyone, that would be objectively a big step towards crushing dissent. There are relatively recent laws by conservative states attempting to regulate social media that have been blocked for 1st Amendment reasons. I don’t see a reason to consider the legal barriers useless, they pretty clearly matter a lot here.
And I believe Trump’s allies in Silicon Valley are closing the gap between what they want and what they can practically achieve.
We’re here, on a network not controlled by those companies. Free speech protections are a big part of what makes that possible.
Peaceful protests are being quashed by the literal US military/national guard. There are videos of police specifically targeting people with signs/flags they don’t like with “less lethals”.
Before that campus protests calling for an end to genocide were quashed by local police.
People who attend either of these protests are being jailed and/or deported.
“Free speech” is a myth.
Free Palestine.
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Something something Congress shall make no law limiting speech.
what about speech they don’t like?
This passes and those shitweasels will declare BLM is “an antiwhite slogan” and move to ban it the same way. Then test the waters for other things, like calling Yam Tits “Yam Tits”… Right to jail.
Guarantee this is what they’re going for. Systematically destroying our freedoms.
🖕🤬🖕
Maybe they should review the First Amendment first.
@faab64 @[email protected] @[email protected]
This shows Republicans and people in power are really scared of a movement of solidarity among their own people, and rightly so, imo; it can topple them.
(Angela Davis said Palestine was the litmus test.)The further they push, the more regular people will recognize it as insane.
