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Boston Approves Permit for White Supremacist Rally on Saturday
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He posted on gaf at some point when his game was a thing.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
Curt did bankrupt a game studio, remember.
No it is actually Schilling; he was involved with Kingdoms of Amalur. Turns out he's kind of a shithead.
Well duh, it's would be unconstitutional not to. The Bill of Rights and First Amendment was put in place exactly so that the US has ways to combat fascism because you have dangerous people like Trump making threats against the press. The statement was public condemnation of their stupid and hurtful world views because while you can't stop them from making a statement, you don't have to agree and are perfectly free to show your disapproval. Go exercise your own right to tell them to shut up and make them feel unwelcome, but don't erode important safety barriers over speech, and don't give them the satisfaction of triggering you because that's exactly what they get off on.
Epsilon-delta
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Hey, I'll take 2004 and some ketchup socks if that continues to be his entire support group!
Zen_Arcade
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capitalCORN
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The Contra code is Google. Neogaf Gold sends you a private invitation if you can you prove you 1cc'ed Ikaruga.
TheCochese
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I have heard some stereotypes of Boston that I would really like to see proven wrong.
i just imagine an army of Mark Wahlbergs
Well at least the mayor said some strong words, right?
Kraft, Belichick, and Brady will be busy with a football game so they won't be able to attend.
Kraft, Belichick, and Brady will be busy with a football game so they won't be able to attend.
Yeah he basically got the funding from that game from the state of Rhode Island, and then the game proceeded to not make any money, and they had no way to pay anything back, which resulted in them trying to sell off the IP and ultimately closing down. I think he (and the other 38 studios execs) wound up having to pay back around 3 million due to fraud charges filed by the state, so the state lost over 70 million dealing with his stupid ass.
evil solrac v3.0
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No it was really him. He posted for a while.
Epsilon-delta
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I will never be invited to Neogaf Gold.
Snkfanatic
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The game made money. Problem is it was sold to EA and they needed about triple the receipts to do anything with it. In defense of Schilling, odd/bad time to be a developer.
The company mismanaged their employees, including mortgages, leading to fuckery all around.
This might be more out of his control than he led on. I'm going to stay off the streets, I'll go to an official counter protest. Wouldn't feel very safe being at this.
Yeah, you think BLM would be given a pass after doing anything CLOSE to that?
I just really like this cartoon
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
I feel like they might of it off more than they can chew
Not to mention the whole driving a car into a crowd thing.
FunkyMunkey
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this is a terrorist organization and should be treated as such. just like we don't allow ISIS rallies in the streets on the US, we shouldn't allow this bullshit.
there's a difference between free speech of "i don't like this thing!" and "we should exterminate these races as soon as possible and do what the nazis did."
free speech isn't some all encompassing thing that has zero restriction, the very existence of these groups is a literal threat of violence against those they target
Velcro Fly
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Stop giving Nazis a platform.
Well, that's the thing. Unless they explicitly state beforehand that their intent is to incite violence, harassment, etc, it's difficult to show that they will, which is why they're allowing it but monitoring it very carefully.
Deciding what is and is not free speech is actually rather tricky, because there are tons of exceptions, and deciding what is and is not allowed is tough.
If we did have hate speech laws, they would be ruled unconstitutional rather quickly. The US since it's inception has always erred on the side of free speech with less restrictions than with more. There's an argument to having more, but I'm not certain it would curtail violence altogether too much.
Their core message is probably "fuck Jews and minorities", but showing that is a public safety threat to the extent of being able to ban all Nazi rallies point blank is difficult to do. It is easy to see how shouting that there's a bomb on an airplane or fire in a theater will incite violence, but considerably more difficult to show that fascist rallies will. I think the event could've been postponed at least due to safety concerns, but if Boston thinks they have it under control, I will have to tentatively trust their judgment.
TheExhaustedWalrus
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My GF is in Boston until tomorrow. I was panicking because I didn't know when this rally would happen. Had me real scared. I hope there is no more violence and that the counter-protesters show up in droves.
facetheslayer92
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Lol, giving the Aryans their safe space.
One of the primary organizers of this event goes to my school and is in my class, actually. I won't post his name but he claims on his Facebook page to not be a Nazi and is regularly a piece of shit on YouTube and online. The school itself released a blanket statement about the event in question and didn't address the student directly at all. The dude is acting like we have no reason to want him out of our school, and his smug face pisses me off.
Baroquemantic
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Terrorist groups shouldn't be allowed to hold rallies.
Plenty of rallies end this way because it's loud, confusing and tempers run high when met with resistance. Mob mentality basically. Also big terrorist targets because of a large amount of people. But regardless, we can't disallow rallies because they are very powerful tools of social justice. Many of the biggest strides forward were based on the sentiment and energy that was publically displayed. A White supremacist rally is equally as much of an excuse for people who vehemently disagree to get out and challenge them and make a spectacle of it. Police should be doing everything they can to keep the peace and everyone should refrain from physical violence, but there's always that guy who can be coerced to harm or kill in a moment of passion. But really, compared to some of the domestic terrorism we've seen lately with mass shootings we should appreciate anyone is respecting the law at all, because when you are zealous enough, you may skip that part.
Lightning_Roller
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Protest the fuck outta these assholes.
You go to class with John Medlar?
Isaac Otherworld
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This isn't about free speech anymore. Nazi groups are literally terrorist organizations.
A Link to the Past
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The risk involved in allowing white supremacist groups to hold rallies should be enough to bar such a permit.
They're serious
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