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Majority Of Dems OK With Criminalization Of Hate Speech
DailyCaller ^ | 05/20/2015 | Blake Neff

Posted on 05/21/2015 7:56:54 AM PDT by aimhigh

A poll released Wednesday by the online pollster YouGov has found that a plurality of the American public, as well as a majority of Democrats, support limiting the First Amendment to allow a ban on hate speech.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 114th; constitution; firstamendment; freespeech; homosexualagenda; liberalfascism
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Sadly, I double this country will last another generation.
1 posted on 05/21/2015 7:56:54 AM PDT by aimhigh
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We could very well see a major revolt in the future.


2 posted on 05/21/2015 7:58:27 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: aimhigh

And who gets to define “hate speech”?


3 posted on 05/21/2015 7:59:25 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Biggirl; aimhigh

Sorry..that is hate speech..please report to the nearest sensitivity training center as soon as possible..


4 posted on 05/21/2015 8:00:14 AM PDT by BerniesFriend (Sarah Palin-"Lord knows she's attractive" says bitter Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the MSM)
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To: aimhigh

“I may disapprove of what you say, but I will fight ‘till YOUR DEATH, MY RIGHT TO CENSOR IT.”

Isn’t that how that quote goes?


5 posted on 05/21/2015 8:00:22 AM PDT by Lazamataz (America has less than a year left.)
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To: aimhigh

I tend to agree. It’s only a matter of time before criminalizing “hate speech” becomes a Hillary-like litmus test for Democrat Supreme Court nominees. That will turn the lights out on the First Amendment, and America.


6 posted on 05/21/2015 8:00:26 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: aimhigh

...AND THEY GET TO DEFINE WHAT’S HATE SPEECH!


7 posted on 05/21/2015 8:01:09 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: aimhigh

So are 37% of Republicans. That’s way worse, in my opinion.


8 posted on 05/21/2015 8:03:22 AM PDT by SquarePants (Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time)
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To: Biggirl

“protected classes”

Libs always arrange these things so that THEIR hate speech is protected, and everyone else’s is criminalized. So it will be a crime to criticize Islam, but criticism of Christianity will be allowed, even mandatory among “right-thinking people.”


9 posted on 05/21/2015 8:03:30 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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"And who gets to define “hate speech”?"

Liberals. The assault on the Constitution continues. Obama and his minions are very far along in dismantling this country.
10 posted on 05/21/2015 8:05:07 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: aimhigh

So, not only do the Dems hate the Second Amendment, they hate the First as well.


11 posted on 05/21/2015 8:07:25 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Rather, civil disobedience” will be considered “cool”.


12 posted on 05/21/2015 8:11:49 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: aimhigh

The more saddening thing is how many Republicans were okay with this. That’s inexcusable.


13 posted on 05/21/2015 8:13:34 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: GeronL

Everyone except white Christian males.


14 posted on 05/21/2015 8:14:00 AM PDT by Boogieman
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And who gets to define “hate speech”?

Indeed. Is "I hate Democrats" considered to be "Hate Speech". Not now, but in the future who knows. I think we have to go back to teaching The Bill of Rights in the schools again. Apparently that is not happening anymore.

15 posted on 05/21/2015 8:15:40 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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Roger that. Leftists are the most hateful people the world has ever known. They hate God and anybody who believes in Him.


16 posted on 05/21/2015 8:16:29 AM PDT by afsnco
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To: aimhigh

Hate speech is hard to define. If I say “Obama is a horse’s A$$!”, in Blue states it would be hate speech against Obama. In RED states it would be an insult against horses!


17 posted on 05/21/2015 8:18:00 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (.)
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We need to be careful here......in the Weather Underground's (read Bill Ayers, et al) Manifesto from the 70’s, they advocated for ALL who disagreed with their political positions to be put into encampments in the southwest for ‘reeducation’. If the ‘reeducation’ didn't achieve the goal, those who weren't turned into agreement with their Government were to be eliminated. No joke.
18 posted on 05/21/2015 8:20:51 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Not my circus, not my monkeys.......)
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To: aimhigh
A poll released Wednesday by the online pollster YouGov has found that a plurality of the American public, as well as a majority of Democrats, support limiting the First Amendment to allow a ban on hate speech.

The left is getting more ugly every day!

The purpose of the First Amendment is to protect "offensive" speech. It is not needed to protect everyday speech.

Now the Socialist Democrats, Marxists, Communists, and other leftists want to parse free speech to separate out that which they do not want to hear.

We already have speech police who condemn something someone said ten years ago. Is this not insanity? Are we headed to chaos? Are we "there" yet?

19 posted on 05/21/2015 8:22:34 AM PDT by olezip (Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ~ Cicero)
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We need to be careful here.....

Actually, we need to get a backbone and have the courage to stand.

20 posted on 05/21/2015 8:25:30 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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