"WORD!"
Posted on 06/22/2015 5:33:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Say this for the guy: It takes some Jedi-level trolling to make yourself part of another country’s national debate about racism after a mass murder when you don’t even count as a celebrity there anymore.
I like that he calls for actual jail time, not a fine or parole or some other more ceremonial penalty. If we’re going to carve out First Amendment exceptions for thoughtcrimes, might as well be bold about it.
What would I do with white people who use the N-word? Jail them.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 22, 2015
Not to play a fool’s game here, but why limit punishment to white offenders? Believe it or not, that’s probably the biggest constitutional problem with his idea. The First Amendment is an obstacle too — a law that purported to criminalize the use of the N-bomb would probably be unconstitutional in any federal court in the country at the moment — but that obstacle might be cleared in due time. Remember Chris Cuomo mumbling about the “fighting words” exception to free speech? The “fighting words” doctrine says that the state can ban words which are so inflammatory that their mere utterance is apt to incite a breach of the peace. If there’s any word in American life that a majority of the public might agree rises to that level of inflammation, it’s the word “nigger.” In fact, Cuomo explicitly analogized between that word and drawings of Mohammed to try to capture how insulting Pam Geller had been to Muslims. If the left ever fully commits to trying to ban “hate speech,” Morgan’s idea is their strongest play, a potential foot in the door of First Amendment jurisprudence. Get one word banned successfully and then everything afterward is a simple matter of analogy. If people deserve jail time for the N-word, why doesn’t a cartoonist deserve it for a Mohammed drawing? Hate is hate, right?
How would you write that law to maximize its chances of passing Fourteenth Amendment scrutiny? Any thoughts, legal eagles? Treating a certain kind of behavior as a crime only when someone of a particular race engages in it seems … not so progressive, a prime facie violation of equal protection. I guess there are ways you could torture the jurisprudence to find that it’s copacetic — if protecting minorities (“suspect classes”) is the chief concern of equal protection, a law that focused on wrongdoing committed exclusively by the majority would be kinda sorta okay-ish if you squint real hard, I guess? I dunno. Presumably you write the law neutrally, making racist intent an element of the crime, and trust that prosecutors will understand that one black person calling another “nigga” playfully doesn’t meet the definition. But let’s not overthink this. Morgan’s not making a legal argument (the niceties of Second Amendment jurisprudence have never slowed him down from backing gun-grabbing), he’s making a moral argument to show his Twitter followers how enlightened he is. How enlightened is he? So enlightened that he’d eagerly embrace a precedent in which the state can imprison people for their opinions, obnoxious though they may be. Which is darned enlightened.
If at first you don’t succeed,bark louder.That’s Pier’s motto.
Piers Morgan: First Amendment traitor.
Piers go home and face the charges and do your jail time.
Why wasn’t Robert Kleagle Byrd (D-KKK) thrown in jail for using the “n-word”?
Clearly the leftist jerk doesn’t believe in our Constitution. he doesn’t believe in the Second Amendment. And he doesn’t believe in the First Amendment, as it applies to white people other than him, anyway. So why is he here?
Slippery slope, Piers. You wont be exempt.
How do we teach our children to be strong when the world around them honors the weak of mind and soul.
He needs to be deported...
...to Syria.
He said “white people”. A crime that only white people can commit. Don’t think that will fly with even liberal Supreme Court Judges.
And, since one can now identify as black or whatever race one pleases, no one has to be white anymore, especially if you can get out of a criminal charge by changing your race at will.
I see a future with Affirmative Action For All!
The thought control commissars will add more words to the list until there are none left to speak.
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN word
Piers thus proves the pro-gun argument that he has mocked, that the 2nd Amendment is to protect individuals from the possibility that their own government could become tyrannical.
There it is.
"So Pierce, tell us, when did you stop using the N-word?"
And there you are.
Several years ago on America’s Got Talent, Piers Morgan told violinist Lindsey Stirling that she wasn’t good enough to fill a Vegas showroom. She went on to perfect her craft and is now selling out 10,000 seat venues.
One of her show sets is a graveyard theme along the lines of Michael Jackson’s Thriller and one of the tombstones reads: Piers Morgan.
Truly, stupidity knows no bounds. I am tiring of all this.
Tonight on special report they “bleeped” the president’s use of the word vocally, and spelled it with dashes visibly. Fair and “UNAFRAID?” At real news organization would have let the word stand as it came from the president’s mouth. I wrote them and got an immediate reply...” This was our decision”. Now there’s an answer for you.
What is it with this pompous British twit? Someone needs to swat him in the head with our Bill of Rights as they show him the way back across the pond.
"WORD!"
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