Aka Hecklers' Veto.
Let the debate begin. Hate speech has a less violent, but nearly as damaging, impact in another way: It diminishes tolerance.
As in quoting the Bible on sexual mores.
As I expected the man reeks of elite credentials: Princeton and Oxford educated including Rhodes scholar. The most ironic item is he led the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Now he wants to eviscerate the Bill of Rights.
Wonderful. Then anyone who reads or recites the koooran would be thrown in jail.
My God, the riff riff are piping up!! Can't have that!
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.
but it should not protect hateful speech that can cause violence by one group against another
Under that standard it is no longer a free speech amendment! It would have prevented the exact speech that began our revolution and brought about the Constitution! T
Anyone who opposes hate speech simply wishes to suppress political speech.
End of story.
I wonder how SCOTUS would rule on a "hate speech" law?
Americans need to toughen up, buttercups! Anything any snowflake disagrees with is “hate speech”.
Go step on a Lego, Richard Stengel.
Man in MAGA Hat Attacked: ‘Go Back to Russia, You F*cking Communist!
Note the ages of perp and vic.
And Redstate, do a deep dive on the perp. You might find it interesting.
Free speech must be absolute!
If not, it becomes defined at the changing whimsy of whatever particular entity that happens to be in vogue at the moment.
If certain speech could even “diminish tolerance” and causes someone to act out against another so be it, you punish the act NOT the tenuously asserted “cause”.
There is no middle ground.....You either have freedom of speech or you do not. Once altered, you’ll never ever regain it.
And the arbiter as to what constitutes “hate speech” is . . . (wait for it) . . . Richard Stengel! Ta-Da!
Richard, I hate you!
I wonder if Bezos reads the drivel published by WaPo?
It is never the “speaker” of the speech that causes the violence....it is the reaction of the person hearing it. The author of this piece is an idiot.
We should take this seriously.
Who would have thought that a HATE CRIME law, essentially double jeopardy, would be created.
The trouble with “hate speech” designation is of course that somebody decides what it is, and bias always works against whoever they dislike. Southern Poverty Law Center is best known for designating anything biblical or conservative as “hate.”
The law already protects citizens from speech that incites violence, defames or otherwise harms people for unjust cause. It is unfortunately not enforced to protect conservatives. If existing law were sufficient, thousands of liberals would be in jail or they would be silent.
Socialism is based on envy which is a form of hate so all discussion supporting socialism needs to be banned.
So he’s basically saying America needs to stop being America.
Well, yea that’s your parties platform dummy!
Richard Stengel, another enemy of liberty exposed...
So who is going to decide the difference between rightspeak and wrongspeak?
The author should be stuffed down the memory hole.