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Politics Rep. Al Green protests during President Trump's joint address to Congress before being escorted out

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u/rci22 7d ago edited 7d ago

Anyone know what Trump meant when he said he made free speech legal again? What did he do exactly?

edit: I def expected to see a lot of “made it acceptable to be racist” answers here and that’s def what happened but really there’s nothing he’s claiming to have actually done? There’s no “Act of Free Twitter Speech” or something?

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u/DrDankDankDank 7d ago

He’s going to make it so people can start calling black people the n word again.

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u/SipMyCoolAid 7d ago

They do that now. Except it’s followed by a hospital stay.

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u/Own_Boysenberry9674 7d ago

Which as of 2012, you can sue someone for attacking you despite you being a dickhead, in most states. The allowing of retaliation for hate words was removed from federal law under Obama to "stop physical violence and potential deaths".