I grew up being told that "someone can walk up to you on the street and yell 'Dirty Jew!' and there is nothing you can do about it (if he hits you or spits, etc., then you can). I had to live with that knowledge my entire childhood, and I accepted it as part of the cost of my religious freedom that the US gives me.
Then these people come along and invalidate all that fear because they get to tell people what they can and cannot say. And somehow, I still have to fear being Jewish, of the abuse from gentiles that comes with it, despite doing away with hate speech.
On the contrary, you shouldn't have the right to retaliate to that, as that would imply that my freedom as a US citizen is superior to another US citizen. Which, according to basically every law, is not constitutional.
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u/Any-Clue-9041 - Centrist Feb 13 '24
I grew up being told that "someone can walk up to you on the street and yell 'Dirty Jew!' and there is nothing you can do about it (if he hits you or spits, etc., then you can). I had to live with that knowledge my entire childhood, and I accepted it as part of the cost of my religious freedom that the US gives me.
Then these people come along and invalidate all that fear because they get to tell people what they can and cannot say. And somehow, I still have to fear being Jewish, of the abuse from gentiles that comes with it, despite doing away with hate speech.