Prior to the Civil War, many Southern states passed laws making it illegal for anyone to argue that slavery should be abolished. These laws would never pass a constitutionality test today but this was before the Fourteenth Amendment.
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So I guess we’ll be avoiding all use of irony in this thread.
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Irony can’t be assumed on this board and on the subject at hand given past arguments regarding free speech. Having reread the entire post I see it for the irony it is.