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To: Heartlander
Adopting a left-wing frame, emphasizing censorship or “hate speech,” might provide a more immediate sense of security, but it will ultimately fail.

Exactly. The crusade against "hate speech" is what makes the woke Left so detestable. Why would any right-thinking person want to mimic that tactic and mindset?

Moreover, the specific focus on campus anti-Semitism by some on the Right is misguided. Elite college campuses have been peddling anti-white bigotry for decades, in the form of humanities and social "science" courses that blame white people, "racism", and "colonialism", for every evil in the world. How exactly are anti-Israel or anti-Jewish attitudes any worse or any more bigoted than this?

4 posted on 10/10/2025 7:42:35 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck
The U.S. Supreme Court stated the general rule regarding protected speech quite well in Texas v. Johnson, when it held:

The government may not prohibit the verbal or nonverbal expression of an idea merely because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.
- There Is No Such Thing as ‘Hate Speech’

5 posted on 10/10/2025 7:52:14 AM PDT by Heartlander (Charlie Kirk was a civil rights leader, and they killed him.)
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