Posted on 10/25/2019 7:57:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Strange days, indeed, when America’s free press opposes free speech.
“Free speech is killing us,” headlined a New York Times op-ed. Its author, New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz, argued that “hate speech” leads to violence. Worse, he claims it can cause totalitarianism and even genocide.
To avoid this fate, Marantz says we must rethink the First Amendment, which would include government and private companies striving to limit “hate speech.” He agrees with a former American Civil Liberties Union official that one day in the not-so-distant future, legal “protection of hate speech” will “seem ridiculous in retrospect.”
Some governments have already tried to outlaw “hate speech.” The United Kingdom, for example, criminalizes it. Nevertheless, violent anti-Semitic hate crimes are 13 times more likely to occur there than in the U.S.
France also criminalizes anti-Semitic speech. And yet violent, anti-Semitic hate crimes are four times more likely to occur in France than in the U.S.
Human Rights Watch admits that “a careful review of the experience of many other countries … has made clear that there is little connection in practice between draconian hate speech laws and the lessening of ethnic and racial violence or tension.”
By asserting that hate speech leads to mass violence, the left hopes to persuade Americans to relinquish their right to free speech. To make that more palatable, they insist that freedom of speech is merely a “value,” instead of a right.
A value is something perishable: Today we hold one value, but as the times change, we may hold another one. For instance, nearly all of America valued traditional marriage just 10 years ago, yet today many value same-sex marriage. Values are determined by public opinion—or, perhaps more precisely, by elites who inform, not to say manipulate, it.
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PING!
Hard to believe this country’s young people have been so drastically dumbed down, indoctrinated, and brainwashed to buy into this kind of nonsense.
How many generations will be considered “lost” or even worthless until this heinous insidious trend is stopped in the schools, media, and Hollywood?
Freedom of speech and our right to self protection via the ownership of firearms are what separate us from the slave subjects of most other countries. They only have the illusion of being free while we actually are.
Yeah, let’s cancel the First Amendment to prevent totalitarianism.
That’s the ticket.
The guy’s a genius in disguise (eye roll.)
You do have the right to yell ‘’fire’’ in a crowed theater. What you don’t have is the freedom from the consequences of doing so.
1.) Outlaw Hate Speech
2.) Define "Hate" as ... anything you want to, really.
How to achieve totalitarianism:
1.) Outlaw Hate Speech
2.) Define “Hate” as ... anything you want to
Or as a left-wing fascist Judge might well say...” I cant define it, but I know it when I hear it”
So a New York Times editorial wants to restrict the right of free speech. Not a long leak thereafter to restrict freedom of the press which in the case of the New York Times would restrict their freedom to publish fake news
This is actually genius on the part of the Left.
One of the effects of “Hate Speech” laws is that political parties and candidates can’t even campaign against acts committed by “protected groups.” For instance, in Sweden, a candidate who campaigned against the violence done by Moslems ‘refugees’ would likely go jail and be fined into penury.
Or try campaigning against Moslem grooming gangs in the UK.
It is just like 1984 where the state was modifying language into NewSpeak so that people could not even vocalize concepts of which the State disapproved.
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