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Am I reading correctly, you seem a very principled person - do you see a difference between the two situations?
I thought up above I said they are the exact same situation with a different medium.
Look, I did, I did, see a puddy cat:
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Both are intended to provide two distinct messages: one of comraderie and derision for the benefit of supporters, and one of intolerance and hate directed at the targets. I don't see any substantial difference other than the medium employed.
Your concern seems to arise from my question to yo where I asked if you think every nation in the world is fascist. It is a fair question because regardless of your, or my, personal opinion on free speech, every nation on earth has placed limits on speech. And even in nations with relatively few limits, the USA for example, there is usually very little anyone can do about it when your speech rights are violated.
Examples of students evicted from school for t-shirts, people ejected from public spaces and meetings who were not obstructive nor interruptive, people restricted from public meetings for a button they were wearing. These are all examples of free speech being restricted, often without a legal right, for where the recourse is extremely limited.
Rights, you know are seldom lost all at once. They usually die from many, many small restrictions introduced over long periods.