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Whitefish Should Disown Bigotry

To counter this will require overt public action, indeed governmental action

By Tom Kuffel

Richard Spencer has managed to generate a large amount of national publicity linking our town of Whitefish with bigotry. To counter this will require overt public action, indeed governmental action.

The Whitefish City Council now has the difficult job of devising an ordinance that will separate our good name from his racist views but still be constitutional. This is not impossible. There are limits on the rights of free speech. For example, falsely yelling “fire!” in a crowded theater or libeling someone are both not protected by the First Amendment. But even if constitutional issues cannot be overcome, we can still make a strong statement of values that disowns the ideas of Richard Spencer and his National Policy Institute.

Tom Kuffel
Whitefish