Guess the left will have nothing to talk about, since opening their mouths is ‘hate speech’...
A long time ago, my Mama taught me to say, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me.”
Common sense, right?
Any standard that allows the listener to define the parameters of what a speaker may say is inherently anti free speech. The limits of free speech are, essentially, that one may not say something that is intended to cause actual, physical harm to the BODY of the person who hears it. One cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater, unless there is actually a fire.
By defining "violent" speech as speech that causes an emotional reaction by the listener, this person explicitly endorses the repeal of all free speech rights in the country. I am certain she has never looked up the word "unalienable".
Another commie goal achieved.
I believe that's already happened, at Evergreen State College. The students who took over the campus, kicked all white people off, and caused the whole school to be shut down early (and possibly permanently) defined anyone who disagreed with them as guilty of "hate speech," and then defined "hate speech" as "violence."
This gave them justification to set up roving patrols of minority and LGBT students who armed themselves with bats, knives, and clubs. Campus police were told to stand down and not intervene.
Then a mysterious phone call came in to the local 911 line, on which an apparently male voice stated that he was going to bring a gun to campus and murder as many people as he could find there. After that, the semester was basically called off and school ended early this year.
Their graduation ceremony was moved to Cheney Stadium in Tacoma "for security reasons."
The Left's war on reality will apparently continue for at least a little longer. We must not let it regain the upper hand, which made the Clinton & Obama nightmares possible.
while there can be such a thing as abusive speech that bullies and torments, it is far far far far far rarer than the socalled left wants us to believe
what they like to do is create “needs” for more and more governmental usurpation of power ... while reducing the citizens to subjects and then dependents and then eventually just slaves of the State
This is 1984/Bravo New World Dystopian society come to fruition. It’s Stalinist Russia and Hitler’s Germany.
Hate Crimes are another joke. I can hate you all I want. It’s my right to hate you. If I beat you up, murder you or destroy your property the crimes must be battery, murder or destruction of property......whether or not I hate you is irrelevant and bogus.
I am not going to be here to satisfy the feelings of pedofreak demands like in the days of Sodom
They all can go ef themselves with their redefinition of violence, rape is still rape, pedophilia is sick
This is the logic of a mass murderer. First, rationalize that some action or behavior on your victims’ part is “equivalent to violence”. Then any actual physical violence that you engage in becomes self-defense, or even a moral obligation.
“The left” will ALWAYS fine a way to re-define anything to something they think is demeaning. It is a Communist script they read.
Now, for 65 years i have called folks as i see them.
I ain’t about to stop for some marshmellow’s feelings.
The left is trying to bring the U.S. down with hate speech. They are doing this, because Barak and Valerie hate the U.S.
The left owns and practices hate speech.
Violence
VI’OLENCE, noun [Latin violentia.]
1. Physical force; strength of action or motion; as the violence of a storm; the violence of a blow or of a conflict.
2. Moral force; vehemence. The critic attacked the work with violence
3. Outrage; unjust force; crimes of all kinds.
The earth was filled with violence Genesis 6:11.
4. Eagerness; vehemence.
You ask with violence
5. Injury; infringement. Offer no violence to the laws, or to the rules of civility.
6. Injury; hurt.
Do violence to no man. Luke 3:14.
7. Ravishment; rape.
To do violence to or on, to attack; to murder.
But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
To do violence to, to outrage; to force; to injure. He does violence to his own opinions.
VI’OLENCE, verb transitive To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence [Little used]
(Webster’s 1828 Dictionary)
...and violence as freedom of speech and vice versa.
Can we now classify the Quran and Maxine Waters as violence?
Prof. Barrett may think she’s on to another clever ploy to silence the right. But the reality is the real verbal bullies (as well as the actually violent types) are on the left. People on the right would have a field day going after lefty posters who abuse & bully their opponents.
Hate speech = violence
Violence = crime
Therefore, hate speech = crime
Islam has a powerful effect on your nervous system. It may intentionally lead to your death if you are not an adherent of specific versions of Islam. Now am I to go to jail for the above two sentences? I never really thought of, “look out, he is trying to kill you” as hate speech.