Posted on 03/19/2015 6:12:41 AM PDT by C19fan
One of the most admirable things about Europe is that most (if not all) of the right-wing rhetoric that you hear in the US is explicitly against the law there. For example, attempting to link Islam with terrorism, saying that gay marriage isn’t really marriage, or saying that trans women aren’t really women would get you charged with discrimination and/or incitement to hatred. Numerous European public figures have been charged with hate crimes for implying that large-scale immigration is connected to higher crime. In fact, a politician in Sweden was prosecuted for hate crimes for posting statistics about immigrant crime on Facebook. Assaults on the human dignity of Muslims are simply not tolerated in Europe, and Europe cracks down hard on any attempts to incite hatred against Muslims. In a notable example, a woman in Austria was convicted of a hate crime for suggesting that the Islamic Prophet Muhammed was a pedophile. Recently, a man in Sweden was charged with incitement to ethnic hatred for wearing a T-shirt saying “Islam is the devil.” Nobody in Europe believes that these laws interfere with their sacred, guaranteed right to freedom of speech. Rather, these laws protect freedom of speech by ensuring that it is used responsibly and for the purposes of good.
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Yep, in their wisdom they have become fools...
Hate is in the eye-of-the-beholder...and to say free speech is only to be used for “good” is also. What is “good”?
ISIS “good”? Killing anyone that is non-Muslim?
Christ “good”? Forgive those that trespass against us.
These people are so confused, caused by rejecting God and believing in their own wisdom.
Freedom of Some Peoples' Speech PING
LOL! Getting all riled up over words, and when terrorist groups bomb sovereign countries we disarm sovereign countries. W T F?
Do people actually believe this nonsense! I find its like a bad B movie where there is no logical motive behind the antagonist. Every day I wake up. The insanity curves upward, and rationality downward. One day I’ll wake up to be the only sane rational individual on Earth. At this rate, I’m not kidding.
You are correct. The Constitution’s free speech has been turned on its head. It protects freedom to criticize the government, not yell fire in a crowded theater or distribute pornography. We are rapidly approaching a situation where the ONLY regulated/prohibited speech is that which criticizes the government.
To Leftists, and Big Media (but I am being redundant), EVERYTHING they say is the truth. ‘Hate speech’ in in the ear of the beholder, unless the beholder is Conservative/Republican. Nothing we (Conservatives/Republicans) believe has validity. And these wackos are in charge all around the world, including in our WH.
I wonder if she hates Hate.
Stopping any speech is totalitarianism designed to suppress your enemies because your policies are wrong and easily proven wrong.....no thanks.
Comments are 100% against this idgit.
Porn is protected, open sedition is protected, encouraging out enemies in a time of war in protected (see 2001-2009), but being a Republican is not protected. Got it.
Political purge under way, I see.
Wow!
I can’t figure out if this article is a parody of leftist thought or a serious attempt to persuade. If it’s the latter, the author is clearly mentally ill. I know of no other way to describe a mind capable of believing 1984 style nonsense like freedom equals slavery.
I fear I might have just offended the author. Hate crime! Hate crime! Hate crime!
She flunked science I guess. #WarOnScience
Maybe Europe should consider cracking down hard on the Islamonazis who are inciting hatred against the (indigenous) kufir.
Just because he had sex with a girl under the age of ten doesn't mean a thing. As wise Imam will tell you, she was his WIFE and he waited two years to consummate the marriage.
I believe this is definitely where the United States is headed. The left has already largely succeeded in changing the culture to the point that standard conservative beliefs are met with shock and horror by the typical low-information voter. For the love of Pete, it is now considered hateful to disapprove of those demented parents who encourage their toddlers to be transgendered.
Me! me! me! me!
Hmmmm ...
Yes, indeed. In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary (and ILLEGAL) act.
Bill Maher is a right winger?
Who is this moron?
I don’t see anything in her hate screed about protecting Christians from hateful attacks (verbal or violent).
Countries like the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Australia – to name just a few examples – take a much more sensible approach to freedom of expression. They allow legitimate freedom of expression while banning bigots, hatemongers, conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, pro-pedophile groups, terrorist sympathizers, harmful media, Holocaust deniers, pick-up artists, climate change deniers, and other forms of expression which damage society and social cohesion.
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