War on Free Speech

[Eaglelord17]

Does that also apply to things like "From the river to the sea"?

Are they directly calling for the deaths of others? Or do they want one unified country in a specific location?

That chant itself isn’t violence, the context it is used in can help clarify it, but you would have to add in the actual call to violence.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Are they directly calling for the deaths of others? Or do they want one unified country in a specific location?

That chant itself isn’t violence, the context it is used in can help clarify it, but you would have to add in the actual call to violence.

Good nuance & fair.

Most of the time, though, on all sides, bumper sticker slogans get the adversarial “but we know what they REALLY mean” treatment, which brings it back to the eye of the beholder to “read” the context.

“From the river to the sea,” meet “replacement.”

 

[Brad Sallows]

You mean like Clausewitz?

No, some flavours of leftists, mainly in academia. The people who argue that things they don't want to hear are "violence".

[Add example]

 

[Eaglelord17]

Good nuance & fair.

Most of the time, though, on all sides, bumper sticker slogans get the adversarial “but we know what they REALLY mean” treatment, which brings it back to the eye of the beholder to “read” the context.

“From the river to the sea,” meet “replacement.”

The other thing with slogans/sayings is you also end up with people chanting them/using them that don’t realize the full reality of them.

For example I used to use the phrase ‘jipped’ for getting ripped off. It was only fairly recently that I learned it came from gypsy and it was derogatory. It had never been directly connected to the gypsies before that for me, I had only ever heard it in the context of being ripped off.