Why America needs a hate speech law

Washington Post ^ | October 29, 2019 | Richard Stengel

[C19fan]

When I was a journalist, I loved Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s assertion that the Constitution and the First Amendment are not just about protecting “free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.” But as a government official traveling around the world championing the virtues of free speech, I came to see how our First Amendment standard is an outlier. Even the most sophisticated Arab diplomats that I dealt with did not understand why the First Amendment allows someone to burn a Koran. Why, they asked me, would you ever want to protect that?

It’s a fair question. Yes, the First Amendment protects the “thought that we hate,” but it should not protect hateful speech that can cause violence by one group against another. In an age when everyone has a megaphone, that seems like a design flaw.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Ask any pro-choicer, people peacefully proclaiming that abortion is killing an innocent life is HATE SPEECH.

Your label is not necessarily the truth. What is obscene? Nothing except morals of the bible.

[Bishop_Malachi]

Let the debate begin. Hate speech has a less violent, but nearly as damaging, impact in another way: It diminishes tolerance.

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What you call “Promoting Tolerance”, professor, can easily become tyranny when government compels society to accept, promote, and or endorse degeneracy.

[Luke21]

“Anything any snowflake disagrees with is “hate speech”.

That’s it.

[Wuli]

So called “hateful speech” does not and cannot CAUSE violence any more than can a gun CAUSE murder.

How someone reacts to so called “hate speech” is their own choice, that no one forces them into. If they CHOOSE to react violently, THEY are the cause of the violence. They caused the violence because they chose to. The mere speech of someone did not force them into it.

The authors logic does only one thing. It tries to justify violence.

[Kickass Conservative]

The First Amendment protects Free Speech, not Free Thought.

I assume that’s because The Amazing Kreskin wasn’t Born yet.

Remember, Hate is a Motive, it isn’t a Crime.

[Billthedrill]

...but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.

The author isn't clear how that works in a society wherein everything someone doesn't like is racist, sexist, or homophobic. In fact, it doesn't work.

Let the debate begin.

Apparently Stengel doesn't appreciate the delicious irony of defending the suppression of speech and then calling for an open debate. Wouldn't that be "hate speech"?

In fact the default position of journalists these days appears to be that freedom of speech applies only to them, not to the public at large, who cannot be trusted with such a dangerous thing. Naturally they can, and so by extension deserve to be the arbiters of what is permissible. That deserves the ridicule it's getting.

[Joe Brower]

"And the arbiter as to what constitutes “hate speech” is . . . (wait for it) . . . Richard Stengel! Ta-Da!"

As always.

Scratch a liberal, find a fascist.

As always.

[dfwgator]

F that Noise!

[piasa]

This anti-constitution little bass turd Stengel has been picked to be on Biden’s staff...

[piasa]

guy’s an author too

[piasa]

Biden pick Stengel:

To: C19fan
This guy wrote a book called “Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It”

Very anti-Trump.

4 posted on 10/30/2019, 7:41:04 AM by gattaca

[piasa]

This guy also has a connection to Gaza

[piasa]

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Biden’s New ‘Global Media’ Guy Richard Stengel Supports Limiting Free Speech, Bragged About Being a Propagandist
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MenRec ^ | 11/17/20 | Staff
Richard Stengel, new ‘team lead‘ for Joe Biden’s agency for global media, wrote an op-ed last year arguing for free speech restrictions. Stengel, a former MSNBC political analyst until he was named to Biden’s transition team, argued that the First Amendment needed redefining and that “hate speech” should be a crime. “All speech is not equal. And where truth cannot drive out lies, we must add new guardrails,” he wrote. “I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate.” ‘Speech that incites hate’ was defined in Stengel’s op-ed by two examples – Burning the Quran,...

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11/17/2020, 1:44:09 PM · by Kaslin · 28 replies
Townhall.com ^ | November 17, 2020 | Katie Pavlich
Democrat and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley is warning that the Biden transition team has taken an “ominous turn” after former Vice President Joe Biden hired a number of anti-free speech zealots. “For those of us who have been critical of the growing anti-free speech movement in the Democratic Party, the Biden transition team just took an ominous turn. The New York Post reports that Biden tapped Richard Stengel to take the “team lead” position on the US Agency for Global Media, including Voice of America, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,” Turley