Kyuubi4269 posted...But how does that make it indefensible by the first amendment? I don't think any laws mandate you be sympathetic, or be pleasant to anybody.
It's the part about "taking it a step further." When Alex Jones said that the victims of Sandy Hook were lying about the whole thing to "create a false narrative" he also implied that his viewers should call them out for their perceived lying. This created a situation where those that had lost children to the shooting then had to deal with being harassed nonstop, to the point that they received death threats and confrontations in real life, just because of having been associated with the whole thing. Hence why there is now a defamation lawsuit levied against him.
In the end it isn't so much the concept of victim blaming that is a problem so much as the repercussions that it causes and what kind of inspanidual would spout such things. Those that intrinsically would go out of their way to blame the victim would also end up spouting things that would open them up to lawsuit otherwise. While it is pretty absurd to think that the entire concept of victim blaming could ever be a lawful offense but there is argument that one cannot really victim blame without invariably stepping over a few lines.
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