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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Ilaine who wrote (24245)7/15/2006 9:18:31 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 541490
 
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"I am sure you feel justified in being intolerant. You're a good person, with only the best intentions.

I say that with all sincerity."

Ok
I'm trying to get from my post, on the law, to your comment about me personally. Do I feel justified in personally repudiating the Nazi ideology? You bet. Do I feel comfortable repudiating racial discrimination against minority groups? You bet. Do you feel uncomfortable repudiating these things? If not, then you too are intolerant. And absolutely I am intolerant of Nazis and racial bigots- but that doesn't mean I want their first amendment rights taken away, WHERE those rights do not take away the constitutional rights of someone else. Where there is conflict I expect balance- I do not consider the 1st amendment more important than equality- I consider them both important.

How I think the SC would come down is something else again. Their tolerance for discrimination on racial lines, where that discrimination disadvantages a minority perceived as having a long term structurally disadvantaged position in the society, is just about nil. I'm not sure what my intentions have to do with my analysis of how the SC would come down on this. Can you explain the logic of eliding the two issues which are very different?
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