edited, fucked up, strangled, beaten up

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I love Hail to the Thief, it's the first album of theirs I got and I have a certain fondness for it... I bought it in a Borders in Wall Street that we entered to take refuge from the downpour.  I associate Hail to the Thief, thus, with a cold and dreary, ambitious New York.  A gray romanticism.  Anyway.  Here's the full lyrics of the above song - a

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[royinpink]

This reminds me a little of the stuff I'm reading and the paper I wrote about banning hate speech. I agree with Charles Lawrence and others (critical race theorists...) that it's not just words or just speech or just a representation of ideas, so I understand where they're coming from with not wanting it protected under the First Amendment. It's not fair or just or...yeah. BUT, banning it, criminalizing it, doesn't solve anything, might even make it worse, and that is why I'm opposed, not some bullshit racist 'free speech' argument. I actually have like 5 or 6 reasons it's 'potentially' a bad idea, but yeah. Because I think the silence of subjugated/minority/dominated/etc. groups is more of a problem; because banning hate speech creates the illusion that you've solved the problem of racism when you haven't; because harrassment (speech or otherwise) constitutes a threat and is therefore hard to speak out against or turn in the perpetrators of; because insults are only that effective in the way Lawrence describes (silence-creating,

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