Posted on 04/02/2019 6:13:22 PM PDT by Rummyfan
I don’t remember when the phrase “hate speech” came into common use, but for some time now liberals have used it as an implicit attack on the First Amendment. Contrary to all law and logic, they press the view that anything they consider “hate speech” should be suppressed, by the government (a government run by liberals, that is) if necessary.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour engaged in an extreme form of this fallacy while interviewing James Comey earlier today. She asked Comey whether he wished that the FBI had “shut down” people at 2016 Trump rallies who chanted “lock her up” about Hillary Clinton:
Of course, “Lock Her Up” was a feature of the 2016 Trump campaign. Do you in, retrospect, wish that people like yourself, the head of the FBI, the people in charge of law and order, had shut down that language, that it was dangerous potentially, that it could have created violence, that it kind of is hate speech? Should that have been allowed?
Video at the link. The fact that a veteran journalist could ask such an insane question is shocking. (Comey explained that in the United States, it is not the job of the FBI to “shut down” political speech.) The phrase “hate speech” is the magic talisman. But for the last two years, it has been impossible to assemble a group of three or more Democrats who didn’t call Donald Trump a traitor, or worse. Is that hate speech? Should the Democrats’ crazed smears against President Trump be “shut down”? If not, why not?
I think the real answer is that Democrats know that Republicans respect the Constitution and value free speech. Democrats can say whatever they want; there is no risk that Republicans will try to shut them down, no matter how often they claim, absurdly, that Donald Trump is a would-be dictator. But when they gain power, the shoe will be on the other foot.
Democrats have already succeeded in driving “hate speech,” as defined by them to serve partisan ends, from most social media outlets. It is only a matter of time before they make a serious effort to shut down speech in public places that is critical of their leaders, and lock up people who have the temerity to engage in it.
Sure. But how will the Demonrats ever communicate again ?
“It is only a matter of time before they make a serious effort to shut down speech in public places that is critical of their leaders, and lock up people who have the temerity to engage in it.”
See my tag line.
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Maybe the FBI should just be ‘shut down’, and replaced.
What about Hate against Trump?
To a Leftist, “Hate speech” = “Speech that I hate”. The First Amendment must be garlic to their inner vampire.
“Hate Speech” is liberish for “Reason” or “Logic.”
By what parameters do we define hate speech? What constitutes hate speech? Lock her up? Make America Great Again? Build the Wall? Let’s go Mets? Who determines what can and cannot be uttered?
Eliminate hate speech laws. And fast or there will be no free speech.
Yet we have Hate Crime Laws on the Books and nobody from the two mainstream Political Parties seems to mind.
In fact, they banded together to pass Hate Crime Legislation.
Hate is a Motive, it isn’t a Crime. All those Lawyers in Congress and they haven’t a clue about our Constitution.
Outlawing s called Hate Speech is just the next rung on the Ladder of Fascism.
It won't be racist, white privilege, it will be Freedom vs Tyranny, and I've got the winner picked. I calculate 23,000,000 bodies, but I'm conservative.
“The life of the elite is a long Sunday: they live in beautiful houses, they wear elegant clothes, they speak a language of their own; whereas the people lie at their feet like manure on the fields.”
As true today as when Georg Buchner wrote this in 1834.
That’how dangerous this mental illness has become!
What about Hate against Trump?
You seem to be confused, that is not hate you hear directed to President Trump, rather it is concerned criticism of their beloved president you are witnessing.
Shut down hate speech? Great idea, I mean who could be for spreading hate? The devil is in the details. Who gets to determine what qualifies as hate speech?
who are they to say what hate speech ,....they themselves tried a coup on trump
If the FBI had shut down “hate speech” in 2016 then DJT would have gotten 60% of the popular vote and 400 electoral votes.
I can’t stand that hag, that sickening accent of hers is like listening to fingernails on a blackboard.
Now she’s showing off her stupidity. Must be catching at the DNC fan club she works for.
This dolt must know before hate speech can be regulated, it must first be defined, then legislated within the limits of the Constitution so there is a law the FBI can work off of. They just can’t go out and Gestapo everyone based on DNC demands. (but it’s coming)
Who decides what hate speech is?? Are next going into thought control??
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