Someone needs to explain how the #FirstAmendment works to these #fascist #Republicans. The #state MAY NOT restrict access to ideas that #conservatives don't like. They MAY NOT #discriminate on the basis of #ideas they don't like. It's a little something called #viewpointDiscrimination, and it's been explicitly prohibited since the founding of our #nation. Interestingly, it's a concept that was opposed by the #rightwing prior to 2016. Hmmm.... 🤔

#GOPfascists

https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-republican-bashes-marxist-ideologues-public-libraries-sure-hell-no-place-state

Contrast that with local governments, who are bound by the #FirstAmendment, prohibited from practicing #ViewpointDiscrimination. This means that if a local government allows one viewpoint on a subject, they are generally required to allow all viewpoints on that subject. This is how we get the Satanic Temple's excellent stunts, like demanding that towns that display Christian icons on public lands also display statues of Baphomet right next to them.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/17/639726472/satanic-temple-protests-ten-commandments-monument-with-goat-headed-statue

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@wowaname @thor @cafkafk

Part of #liberalvalues is the idea that we have #opendiscussion, that is keep any idea on the table if expressed in the right form (not spam, not excessive obscenity or slurs, not attacks on individuals, etc).

Basically to avoid #viewpointdiscrimination

https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1028/viewpoint-discrimination