Posted on 09/16/2025 5:20:06 PM PDT by DoodleBob
WTF is hate speech?
Good article. Thanks for posting.
The Courts have ruled that the Constitution does not apply to your personal space. You are allowed to have whatever unconstitutional rules you want within your space.
Unfortunately hate speech legal, serious threats of harm or death are ALREADY illegal...
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What’s the definition of “your personnel space”?
As the courts ruled, your home and business.
I’ve always heard it expressed as the right to wave your fist around ends at the tip of my nose.
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Glenn Beck said when the government decides the “truth” and “hate speech” definitions then the people are doomed to tyranny.
Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter long ago said: The most difficult right for a person to tolerate is to allow freedom for the thought we hate.
We, of course, have had to grit our teeth, clench our fists, and tolerate a nerdy guy who urinates on a portrait of Jesus or one who does that to an American flag. “Protected speech” the SCOTUS rules.
Free speech, including βhateβ speech, has absolute protection when youβre referring to disfavored groups (e.g., straight white males, Jews, etc.). However, when youβre referring to sanctified groups (e.g., Blacks), no derogatory speech is permitted.
Inciting violence. For example, the sort of language that leads directly to an act of vigilantism. After all, a lone assassin is basically a lynch party of one.
If you whip up a crowd to lynch someone, is that not a crime?
If so, it doesn’t depend on the length of time, as much as on how direct the line between the speech and the action (whether intended, or even unintended — as in “negligent” homicide).
What’s to stop anyone from yelling “FIRE!” in a crowded theater?
Property rights.
The theater owner can throw the yeller out. Itβs the ownerβs property. His rules win.
I’ve spent my entire life listening to people that hate me.
They have the right to say what they want,
I should have the same right to speak about them.
As far as Federal law is concerned I can say “Nigger”
and White trash, or “Whitey”.
Local communities have different rules.
Freedom of speech means exactly that!
I can call a Moslem a Godless POS
They can call me an infidel.
Our Constitution allows us to speak
openly and share our views.
Regardless of how we may object to those views.
Thanks ChatGPT, I’m guessing.
I don’t think it’s unfortunate that hate speech is legal. If it were illegal, every criticism of everything would be considered “hate speech” Direct threats of serious harm, of course, have been illegal for a long time.
Hate speech yes, threats no!
The FR has spit it’s own share out. Even to each other here...
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