Ken WhiteMar 28, 2023
A Banal First Amendment Fact Pattern At Wayne State
https://popehat.substack.com/p/wayne-state-professor-steven-shaviro
Wayne State Professor Steven Shaviro Volunteers As First Amendment Tribute

Yalies, Ugh

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Show threadDenis RobertMar 28, 2023
@Popehat So, Shaviro is pro-terrorism and we’re somehow supposed to take what he says seriously? Shouting down a speaker is by definition an exercise of free speech. To be against using speech to counter speech is to be pro-censorship. All you have is a power differential where one speaker has their speech amplified by money, status and a platform, and his opponents only having numbers to establish their power.
Show threadMatt DawsonMar 28, 2023
@drobert @Popehat "This speech is protected by the First Amendment" is not the same as "This speech must be taken seriously."
Show threadDenis Robert
@pavlov112 @Popehat you come really close to the line when you openly advocate assassinations, tho.
Mar 28, 2023 at 3:49pmWeb
Show threadLizardMar 28, 2023
@drobert @pavlov112 @Popehat Unless he was talking to an angry mob with a victim in ready reach, it was just that, advocacy. The expression of an idea. A stupid idea, for which he deserves social opprobrium and severe mockery, but one which he is legally allowed to express, and for which the government -- which includes a public university -- cannot punish him.
Show threadKen WhiteMar 28, 2023
@drobert @pavlov112 That's not the line. It's absolutely clear you can advocate for the moral, philosophical, and social rightness of murder.
Show threadDenis RobertMar 28, 2023
@Popehat @pavlov112 I said “close to the line”. A lawyer needs to be a better reader than this.
Show threadarceuthobiumMar 28, 2023
@drobert going by the “imminent lawless action” standard he’s nowhere close.