akuperma: Under American law, the only time being pro-Nazi was illegal was when the United States was at war with Nazi Germany.
Even then it was legal to be pro-Nazi. The first amendment has no exception for wartime. Taking actions for the purpose of helping the enemy is treason; but simply saying the enemy is right is protected speech.
n0m, wrong as usual: I do not think this post was questioning a general display of The Confederate Flag. There are two instances that it could be illegal. 1) To incite hate. 2) Anywhere that it is beholden to The Civil Rights Act. [Such as the workplace.]
The first amendment knows of no exception for “inciting hate”. Nor can the civil rights laws override it.
The situation of a confederate flag in the workplace is legally tricky. The government has no authority to make it illegal to display it in the workplace; however your employer can forbid it, and the government has effectively required all employers to do so. If you put up a swastika at work you are in no legal trouble; but if your employer doesn’t make you take it down he can be in trouble. But this hasn’t been thoroughly tested; if an employer were to refuse to ban it, and insist that doing so violates his freedom of speech, he might well prevail.
As for BLM, the entire movement is premised on a lie. Remember that it all started with “Hands up don’t shoot”, i.e. the LIE that the vicious thug Michael Brown was trying to surrender when he was shot. And from the very beginning, in Ferguson, it was antisemitic. Funded by Soros, the organizers blamed Israel for Brown’s death.