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Eleven people arrested for placing pigs’ heads near French mosques and other hate crimes
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
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I don't feel terribly inclined to consider the opinions of someone who says "France doesn't have the first amendment"
This has been visible for years and building over decades, America in general chose for this to happen.
Okay buddy 👍 if you’re incapable of thinking just say so.
There’s plenty wrong with America, but as someone who doesn’t take part in any religion, I appreciate and demand the right to be able to protest or otherwise denounce religions that are morally reprehensible. Islam is one of those, some sects of Christianity as well - namely Mormonism which is functionally the Islam of Christianity lol.
Part of why America has become the way it is, is due to the rampant hesitancy at opposing the fascist/authoritarian nature of religions such as Christianity. Seems America will become a Christian hellscape, France appears to be going down the Islamic hellscape.
Doesn’t change my point that freedom of speech/protest is important to resist the controlling nature of the religious disease.
Bro, just stop, you're making Americans look stupid
You can protest in France, they kind of invented it.
You can protest Islam in France too.
You aren't doing yourself any favours here
Looks like people just got arrested for it so I beg to differ.
Oh, can you put the heads of dead animals on other people's property as a threat in America? I wasn't aware
Well considering it wasn’t put on any other person’s property and just “near” or “outside”, your attempt at a gotcha falls flat here.
I'll just burn this cross "near" someone's property. Same place every night. Me and my buds love to burn all these crosses "not on anyone's property". Free speech I guess
Well if ya do it in white robes, you’d likely be profiled as a terrorist member org member (kkk), but if ya did it near a church in plain clothes, it would definitely be free speech.
Idk why you keep switching details in your weird little scenarios as if they won’t make a difference and I won’t notice. You’re arguing in bad faith.
Complete freedom of speech isn't allowed in any other Western democracy.
Saying we should kill all black people will get you jailed in mamy western nations, in the US it's a rallying cry.
Like the US Gun laws, you can look to other similar nations who do it differently to see if there are different outcomes.
As to religion, is their a more secular western nation than France ? The US is infested with the putrid stench of religion every where you look, In God we trust ? FFS.
There are any things to admire about the US I just can't tthink of any right now
This is kind of the same ignorance as OP but from the other side.
The us doesn't have "complete freedom of speech" (even if we're counting a USA where the first amendment still matters, aka not now)
Other western democracies do not practice a "lesser form" of free speech than America.
You are just American
First of all: many*
I have lived in rural and suburban areas. I have also lived in right-leaning and left-leaning areas. I now live in a city.
Your information must be outdated because never in my 30ish years living in the U.S. have I ever heard “We should kill all black people” let alone heard it used as a “rallying cry.” Be fuckin’ for real and get out of your fantasy land. You can’t even spell correctly, I won’t be engaging with you or your bad-faith arguments any further lol