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Originally Posted by MarchHare
And so it is with neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers. They're free to write and speak about whatever craziness they want; they haven't broken any just law until a Jewish person is physically harmed as a direct result of their actions.
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For the sake of discussion, just throwing this out there:
What is actually harm, though?
You have classified it as basically physically doing something (lynching someone, for e.g.).
Is it harm, if you as a memeber of one of the identified groups, are hearing "you are an inferior race" or "the holocaust never occurred because it is a conspiracy by jewish people" or whatever actually is said...?
Its a fine line, yes, but there is more than phyiscal overt harm.
(not saying that you don't know this etc, just more so to keep what I think is a good discussion going)