Posted on 05/31/2019 10:32:43 AM PDT by Heartlander
Some 41 percent of college students say hate speech shouldn't be protected under the First Amendment, according to a new survey.
Just 58 percent said that hate speech should be protected under the amendment, which guarantees American's a right to freedom of speech, according to the survey of 4,407 students by the Miami-based Knight Foundation.
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Just wait till they find out thaT spouting anti-semitic and anti-Christians messages is hate speech too- and in their words ‘shouldn’t be protected’- Watch em stammer hemm and hawww then
The entire subject is a useless endeavor until we define what hate speech is; and determine who it is that defines it.
True hate speech of the demagogic type does need to have some limits - but toady’s idiots think anything spoken aloud that disagrees with the leftist, Democrat party’s ideals is hate speech.
Every prospective employee, shall sit down and watch Blazing Saddles in it’s entirety and discuss their feelings afterwards. Should be easy to weed the weenies out.
until we define what hate speech is;
I’ll take a shot:
speaking Truth to someone that lies about everything or has been fed lies about everything.
The speech some hate is magically presented as hate speech; dissenting intellectual positions become mental conditions; and contrary opinions are delegitimised after all, theres no need to argue with a mad man or woman. This is censorship by way of intellectual pathology. - Ben Shapiro
If they called the dang laws by a non-Orwellian name like 'disagreement-speech' then even the lumpen college kids would do a double take and maybe only 20% of them would be for it.
But one day they will find, disagreeing with someone or something, that they are sued or locked up or fired or fined or shot. And at that moment they will say 'I wasn't hating, I was just disagreeing' and they will have woken up too late.
That said, this is America, and if you're not initiating harmful force against someone, or encouraging people to initiate harmful force, or committing fraud ... then hate, though not recommended, should be as lawful as breathing.
At some point they're going to take the keys from us, regardless. It's always been our responsibility to make sure they were worthy enough to handle the country.
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