Ethics

Sadly Mistaken Post at Pam's House Blend

By Ed Brayton

The post is by someone using the name dagon and it's entitled Free Debate or Freedom From Craziness. The author advocates shutting down free speech for those ideas he doesn't like. And he begins by showing his legal and historical ignorance:

A decade or so ago a neo-Nazi group decided to hold a parade through a community heavily populated by survivors of Nazi concentration camps. There was a huge uproar. Progressives, veterans, and most sensible Americans came down on the side of "No Nazi March!" The ACLU and some progressives came down on the side of Freedom to Assemble and Free Speech - give 'em a parade permit. In the end a compromise was reached ... they marched in Chicago, I believe, and everyone ignored them.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).