Posted on 04/21/2017 3:50:02 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
"This is an increasingly common idea, and is not just restricted to failed presidential candidates. It is also an extremely insidious idea, for “hate speech,” contrary to popular belief, is not an objectively quantifiable entity.
One’s person’s “hate speech” is another’s outspoken defense of liberty and justice. And there is no basis in the Constitution, or in the numerous Supreme Court decisions interpreting it up to now, for the claim that there is any exclusion of “hate speech” from First Amendment protection. The label of “hate speech” is a tool in the hands of the powerful that they use to stigmatize and silence the powerless.
That’s why Dean’s statement is so dangerous: it heralds the end of all First Amendment protection, and the criminalization of dissent..."
(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ...
and apparently liberal terrorists get to decide what hate speech is
So, then shut up already
Yee-hawww!!!
We’ll stop the free speech in New York, Maryland and New Jersey! We’ll stop it in California. yee-hawww! We’ll stop it in Ohio and Michigan!! Yee-haw!!
Yes it is. Love speech isn’t in much need of protection. It’s unpopular speech that needs protecting. Duh.
Of course, they consider hate speech against Christians, conservatives, Republicans, white people, etc., to not be hate speech.
eee-yaw !!!!!!!!
And of course, “Hate Speech” is whatever you and your fellow travelers on the left say it is.
2nd amendment says otherwise.
Ues, it is...because we are talking a definition of words, cultural words and politicizing any utterance as prohibited.
So, you are flat out wrong...
So I guess all the rappers that sing about killing police and the twinkly eyed movie stars calling for Pres. Trump to be assassinated should be indited and tried for hate crimes.
When “Hate Speech” is defined as “something you don’t think anyone should ever agree with” by the people who oppose you. Free speech is dead is you start banning so called “hate speech”....
First they outlawed one word, then several, then ....
“Common sense speech control”
Ugly sibling of “common sense gun control”
Oh,I know...that's "speaking truth to power".
Then why are these colleges and universities promoting so much hate and intolerance in opposing opinions . Conservatism is not hate speech it is simply an alternate expression . In fact I see much more intolerance and hatred in liberalism that I will ever expect from any conservative . GET REAL !!!!
Just think - he could have been our president!!
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