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    9 months ago

    There are a bunch of Supreme Court rulings which basically said the KKK can advocate for violence in general so long as they don’t lay out specifics. That’s what these folks hide behind

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        9 months ago

        The biggie is Brandenburg vs Ohio, from 1969

        Where that really falls down is when you have social media algorithms selectively showing inflammatory speech to the audience most likely to act on it. This means that inflammatory speech which wouldn’t have caused violence in the 1960s is incredibly likely to do so now.