Posted on 05/01/2017 7:28:48 AM PDT by deplorableindc
This is a moment of extreme hyperbole in America, with words like "fascism" and "Russian coup" mixing in seamlessly in our superlative-heavy political discourse with "creeping sharia" and "Mexican invasion." But perhaps no phrase is deployed as recklessly as "hate speech," a nebulous non-legal term of which there is no agreed-upon definition.
While neither red nor blue America has a monopoly on trying to use the force of government or the violence of the citizenry to silence its opponents, the idea that the most vulnerable among us can be protected from the wounds of "hate speech" through loopholes in the First Amendment has been gaining disquieting momentum among liberal thinkers who should really know better.
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“While neither red nor blue America has a monopoly on trying to use the force of government or the violence of the citizenry to silence its opponents”
Not correct. Author is just trying to get the rats to listen for a minute...
“Hate speech” = thoughtcrime, badthink, etc. Anyone using the term is a totalitarian, because they want to erase the most personal liberties of all, the liberty of our own minds.
“hate speech” is anything liberals hate to hear. And the more truth in the speech, the more they hate it.
I am tired of the fat lie “everybody does it.” Liberals use that lie to excuse doing wrong.
“I am tired of the fat lie “everybody does it.” Liberals use that lie to excuse doing wrong.”
AND... conservatives falsely admit to it too much just to try getting the libs to listen for a second. For example, how many times have you heard a conservative pundit try to start a discussion with the old trope, “I know there are extremists on both sides, but...”
We need to stop copping to that BS. The extremists are all on the left.
Agree.
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