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BY: Alex Griswold August 14, 2017 3:28 pm

The co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement claimed Monday on MSNBC that hate speech is not protected under the U.S. Constitution.

HostKaty Turasked Dignity and Power Now founder Patrisse Cullors about President Donald Trump's initial statement on the violence from white supremacists at a Charlottesville, Va. rally, which appeared to equate the neo-Nazis with the counter-protesters.

"Draw a distinction for me, if you will," Tur asked Cullors, whofirst spread the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter.

"I think what is important at this moment is white nationalists are actually fighting to take away people's rights," she responded. "Black Lives Matter and groups like Black Lives Matter are fighting for equality."

"Hate speech, which is what we're seeing coming out of white nationalists groups, is not protected under the First Amendment rights," she continued.

Cullors is incorrect. Under existing Supreme Court precedent, the U.S. government cannot sanction or ban speech simply because it is hateful or unpopular.

That principle was most recently upheld in June in the case ofMatal v. Tam, when the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the government cannot deny trademarks to brand namesit finds offensive.

Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinionargued that the banning of hateful speech "strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express the thought that we hate.'"

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters joined church groups early Saturday morning as they prepare to face off with white nationalists and anti-Semites in Charlottesville, Va.

Hundreds of white nationalists marched on the University of Virginia campus Friday evening, where they clashed with counter-protesters. Shouting White Lives Matter, and Jews will not replace us, the white nationalists held tiki torches and rallied under a statue of former President Thomas Jefferson, the founder of UVA.

Thousands of demonstrators and counter-protesters areexpectedto rallySaturdayafternoon at Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park, where several white nationalist groups are hosting a Unite the Right rally.

BLM joins dozens of other groups to protest the rally, saying that they plan to out number the rally-goers.

Men and women from state and local agencies will be in Charlottesville [on Saturday] to keep the public safe, McAuliffe said in a statement, and their job will be made easier if Virginians, no matter how well-meaning, elect to stay away from the areas where this rally will take place.

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The phrase Black Lives Matter was coined as a social media hashtag in 2013, sparked by an acquittal in the shooting death of an unarmed African-American teenager. Within a couple of years, it grew from a popular hashtag and rallying cry to the name of a full-fledged political movement in the U.S. and worldwide, aiming to ensure basic human rights for all black people. The hashtag itself, #BlackLivesMatter, was chosen by the American Dialect Society as its 2014 Word of the Year, because it played such an important role in current political discourse. As a first for a hashtag, the vote led to passionate discussions over whether a hashtag can be a Word of the Year. There was also discussion as to whether a three-word phrase could be considered a word. The society argued that while hashtags, especially phrasal ones, may not fall under the traditional definition of a word, some can become vocabulary items and end up seamlessly woven into the language. Originally used as metadata to organize messages on Twitter, hashtags now can function just like words or phrases do. Black Lives Matter, with or without the hashtag, with initial capital letters or entirely in lowercase, is now commonly used as a phrase and can refer to broad, general principles: Does the candidate believe that Black Lives Matter? We need to assert that all black lives matter. The phrase also has influenced the language of activism, inspiring people to rally around similar hashtags, such as #BlackKidsMatter, #BlackWomenMatter, #BlackLawyersMatter, and #BlackTeachersMatter, which focus the values of the larger movement in support of specific groups within the black community. Another spinoff of Black Lives Matter centers on a profession instead of race: #BlueLivesMatter gained exposure on social media when police officers were killed on duty. But the visibility of Black Lives Matter has caused some to misinterpret the movements mission as valuing black lives above other lives. For example, the hashtags #WhiteLivesMatter (used by a white supremacist group of the same name) and #AllLivesMatter (used by mostly white and conservative critics) have sprung up in opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement. However, these derivative and evolving hashtags have been subject to criticism on varying levels, as many view them as attempts to detract attention from the vital efforts to ensure basic human rights and dignity for all black people.

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The morning after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, left one counter-protester dead, a Fox News host came to the rally attendees defense and compared them to the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality.

On Sundays episode of Fox & Friends, co-host Pete Hegseth defended President Donald Trumps statements on the deadly rally, which many condemned for not singling out the white supremacists and instead laying blame for the violence onmany sides.

Hegseth, however, said Sunday that Trump nailed it and applauded him for condemning hatred and bigotry on all sides as opposed to immediately picking a side out the gate.

He then suggested the grievances of those attending the Charlottesville rally which included activists from the so-called alt-right, Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and other white supremacists deserve the same sympathy and support offered to the Black Lives Matter movement, which was created to put a spotlight on police shootings of black Americans.

You can call [violence]out, and then but still also listen, say, on Black Lives Matter, to the grievances of young African-American males in urban cores who feel like they are looked at differently by police. That discussion still should be had, Hegseth said, arguing that many young white men feel like, Hey, Im treated differently in this country than I feel like I should have. Ive become a second-class citizen. None of it they tell me I have white privilege.

Fox News as a whole, its worth noting, has consistently painted the Black Lives Matter in broad strokes, going as far as describing it as a murder movement and hate group and blaming it for violence carried out by black individuals, even when they have no connection to the movement.

But Hegseth offered the self-identified neo-Nazis, white supremacists and nationalist protesters the benefit of the doubt.

Theres a reason those people were out there, Hegseth said of those a participating in Saturdays rally filled with Nazi emblems and Confederate flags. Some of it is outright racism and needs to be condemned.A lot of it, though, is I feel like my country is slipping away and just because I talk about nationalism not white nationalism doesnt mean Im talking in code that Im a racist.

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