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In European countries like France or Switzerland you get sentenced to prison time for describing someone as "a fat lesbian".
Free Speech is much better in the US.
It remains a fact that you cannot be deported from most countries (including my home country) for allegedly expressing a particular political opinion, without at least first being put through a legal process to determine that you did in fact express that opinion.
It's a fact, I'm afraid. Disclaimer: I don't even like the guy, he makes money off conspiracy theories about Jewish people. But it's a fact that he got sentenced to prison for saying a journalist is a fat lesbian.
Normally in European countries, an insult, slander or libel would render a fine only.
I’m not sure it follows from this case that the US has better protections for speech, though. It certainly used to, but the argument being made here is that the Trump administration has reduced free speech protections lately.
This whole "freedom" thing is what led to Trump administration, which routinely thinks they are above the law, being in power. And if you think its not that bad, just wait till 2028 when Trump will coup the government like he tried in 2020 except this time he will succeed.
People need to be on a tighter leash. And as for who holds the leash, nobody = the leash is the law, and anyone who tries to circumvent it gets punished. Nobody is above it, even if you feel like the law is unfair - work to get the law changed if that is what you want.
I remember the "gays will be in death camps" from reddit.
Now, without Covid, its pretty clear that he basically tanked the economy for no good reason.
People were warning that Trump is going to weaponize the government to go against people opposing him.
He is doing that now.
People were warning that Trump is going to ignore the law and the legal process.
He is certainly doing that now.
People were warning that Trump is going to implement policies based in racism.
He is certainly doing that now.
And we aren't even half a year into his term.
But sure, pick the few points that didn't happen as justification.
I really do wonder what it feels like to live with ideological blinders on sometimes. Must be a nice feeling to live in reality thats probably happier than what actual reality is.
Which is exactly what Trump is ending with DEI ban.
Trump is actually the president that is making institutional racism illegal.
As for racial rules, what you are talking about is really affirmative action, which was ruled unconstitutional in 2023. Through the legal process, most importantly. There are arguments that you can make on both sides, but just so you understand the idea for affirmative action isn't to punish whites, its basically to inject diversity into campuses so people become more homogenius (which is a good thing) and you have things like kids from racially poor communities getting a chance of getting a degree getting a start at building generational wealth. Its been proven many times over that if you prop up the lower class of the population, everyone benefits. While affirmative action isn't the best way of doing this, its far from bad - plenty of studies done on this.
However, Trump is not ending institutional racism, he is basically axing funding for programs in schools that align more politically left with a shotgun approach, not giving a fuck about cutting actual programs that may be of value to society. This is vindictive punishment of a man child that lost in 2020, probably coupled with some racism (because Trump has a record of being racist against black people)
Whether the goal of those rules is to "inject diversity" or not does not change the racial hierarchy.