@happyborg But what are the consequences?
Autism is definitely a disorder, even if I as a high-functioning autist am only just recently realising how much it disables me.
@light Bro lost me at the second word lol, not quite sure what he's on but I don't think I want a taste.
@realcaseyrollins how do you define it?
@light #Fascism? Pretty sure it's race-centric #nationalism with no democracy or freedom to say much to criticize the regime.
If I'm wrong, it should be too far off-track.
@realcaseyrollins
>no democracy or freedom to say much to criticize the regime
The US seems to be moving in that direction from my vantage point here in the UK.
https://www.thefire.org/news
Trump's lawsuits. His and the FCC's jawboning of ABC. The political deportations. Etc.
>race-centric #nationalism
Idk about this one. Republicans don't like immigrants, but generally just illegal immigrants IIRC. And I don't think it's race-centric.
@realcaseyrollins
Could be wrong though. You are in a better place than I to judge. What do you think?
@light I think when it comes to speech, we're not in the greatest place, but that is due to the behaviors of individuals, esp. violent ones, not anything that the #USA's federal government has done. I am not particularly concerned about repercussions against people who are supporting violence and terrorism. If you think citizens should be able to do so (the front page of #FIRE is focused on those stories), I respect that take, but I do think violence is the line of what should be tolerated.
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@realcaseyrollins @light@noc.social
>If you think citizens should be able to [support violence and terrorism] [...], I respect that take, but I do think violence is the line of what should be tolerated.
I agree with you. The First Amendment (at least according to #FIRE's podcast So To Speak, which I have listened to quite a few episodes of) does allow that, however. When the KKK were around, the courts allowed them to promote violence against black people; and because of that black nationalists and supremacists were allowed to say violent things about white people in turn. IIRC.
>I am not particularly concerned about repercussions against people who are supporting violence and terrorism.
Was Rümeysa Öztürk supporrting violence and terrorism?
As far as I'm aware she wrote a perfectly peaceful anti-Israel article in her university newspaper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_R%C3%BCmeysa_%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk
@realcaseyrollins I found the original article so we can judge for ourselves: https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj
@realcaseyrollins I don't see any references to Hamas whatsoever. The tone and content is entirely one of humanitarianism and student politics.
@light I'm too busy at work to read all that.
@light@qoto.org @light@noc.social I'm not familiar with #RümeysaÖztürk so I can't really speak to that case. She might have been supporting terrorist groups like #Hamas for all I know.