Racist Scumbag Arrested For Displaying Nazi Flag In Barking, UK

[Manic Impressive]

It's not about "bad" beliefs, no one should be prevented from arguing that "Twilight" is the best book ever , but a NAZI flag isn't just some lines and colors, it's a specific symbol meant to intimidate specific groups when it's displayed in public places.

The problem with that is if the bourgeois government can do that to them they can do it to us too. It's a wonder that they don't to be honest. If you condone the STATE acting to prohibit freedom of expression then you don't get to chose when and where they do it.

[Jimmie Higgins]

The problem with that is if the bourgeois government can do that to them they can do it to us too. It's a wonder that they don't to be honest. If you condone the STATE acting to prohibit freedom of expression then you don't get to chose when and where they do it.

There aren't specific laws about this in the US - hell the confederate flag was still on some state flags into the 21st century. My point is that it's not "free speech" and these symbols should not be allowed to be shown without opposition.

Even if there were laws, they'd only be as good as people were willing to fight for them. There are hate-speech laws, but that doesn't mean people don't have to organize and mobilize against high-profile racism and racist speech in order for anything to actually be done about it.

[scarletghoul]

The symbolic order has a very profound material affect on our reality, so we must reject abstract 'freedom of speech'. we also should obviously support the stigmatisation of racist symbols, though an equally important struggle for communists is against terms like 'totalitarianism' which equate fascism with communism.

the fight against the evil of fascism and the sterile vacuity (also evil) of liberalism,here in the legal-ideological sphere, is something we must try our best to understand, so that we dont focuss all our energies on just one of them (ie saying 'we cant let the govt police the nazis thoughts or theyll come for us!' is itself a liberal argument, and 'we must join forces with the liberals to fight the fascists' is also dumb. We should use liberals to fight fascism. Use them like the filthy degenerates they are, but dont ever let them control us. but i digress .. )

[Imposter Marxist]

Just seems like a group of capitalists surpressing a state-capitalist movement.

[Terminator X]

Wait, we're defending Nazis' rights because the "bourgeois government" is cracking down on them? GTFO of here with that argument. Hate speech is not free speech and should NEVER be defended, regardless of who is "oppressing" it.

[Anarchist Skinhead]

i would much rather prefer somebody to brick his windows, now he will feel like amartyr. i am absolutely not defending him, fuck him, but I don't see a reason to get excited that the state is doing that kind of work.