Posted on 06/28/2009 7:59:21 AM PDT by AJKauf
In the wake of the horrific shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the country’s voice has been united in condemning such cowardly acts of hatred. The shooting, as stated by the national director for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), “is a very sad and tragic event which reminds us, as the Museum itself does every day, in the starkest way, where the spread of hatred can lead.” President Obama rightly added, “[w]e must remain vigilant against anti-Semitism and prejudice in all its forms.”
Unfortunately, the president must possess a different meaning of “vigilance” and “all its forms” than most Americans do.
Take, for example, the president’s recent failure to denounce the anti-Semitic rant by his long-term spiritual advisor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. On the day before the shooting, a reporter in Hampton Roads, Virginia, recorded Reverend Wright making numerous anti-Semitic comments, including attacks on the president’s closest advisors, Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod. Reverend Wright blamed “them Jews” for not letting President Obama speak with him. He further asserted that President Obama had compromised his beliefs and the “fiber of his being” for the “Jewish vote” and Jewish lobbying groups....
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The double standard that really gets me is his failure to condemn the black muslim convert who shot dead innocent Pvt Long in Little Rock.
He didn’t condemn the jihadi who killed innocent soldiers because he hates the military and loves the jihadis.
So how many pro-Jewish muslims do you know?
This is my country as well as theirs.
Hate speech is still speech. We have that freedom and we should always have it. Hate speech is protected under the First Amendment just as any speech is protected.
Remember how the Fascists burned books they deemed offensive in Nazi Germany?
I want to be able to call a queer a homo if I feel like it and I frequently feel like it.
This is my country as well as theirs.
Hate speech is still speech. We have that freedom and we should always have it. Hate speech is protected under the First Amendment just as any speech is protected.
Remember how the Fascists burned books they deemed offensive in Nazi Germany?
I want to be able to call a queer a homo if I feel like it and I frequently feel like it.
The teleprompter turd and his allies also hate jews and white people in general.
Actually, hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment. By law. The Free Speech amendment doesn’t guarantee the right to say ANYTHING. You know the “Fire!” example.
Critical speech and hate speech are two different things, though. I don’t know if “homo” falls under the hate speech category. But I do know that I don’t want my leaders calling people names, whether it’s individuals or groups of people. It’s immature and silly and serves no leadership purpose. As for regular, non-leader people, I tend not to associate with people who call other groups derogatory names. Any other groups. I just don’t relate to that mindset.
Define the difference.
I don’t know if “homo” falls under the hate speech category.
I see, you can't can you? The 1st Amendment says "Congress shall make no law..." so there can be no laws made that restrict speech based on what you think. Not Constitutionally and the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land (or so it says within that document)
Usually I do not like to call people names.
However, if they pass any hate legislation I will personally make sure that hate speech crops up in my daily conversations.
If I am arrested for doing so I will sue their pants off and I will win.
Can you imagine for a second the equivalent sort of speech by a long-time pastor of President Bush’s not being a front-page story and immediate press question as soon as it had been uttered?
(Let alone that you can’t imagine any pastor of Bush’s making any such equivalent comments!)
Wasn’t what Reverend Wright said hate speech?
If that can be condoned and listened to, so can mine.
Wasn’t what Reverend Wright said hate speech?
If that can be condoned and listened to, so can mine.
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