Posted on 06/07/2017 1:51:27 PM PDT by C19fan
A Princeton University student believes that, the pesky First Amendment notwithstanding, offensive speech should be restricted because it really is an action.
Comparative literature major Chang Che apparently thinks just because hes read J.L. Austins How To Do Things With Words it should magically apply to a couple of centuries of free speech jurisprudence.
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Here he is
Actions are protected by the First Amendment.
Hard to believe anyone thinks otherwise.
But I thought the first ammendment protected “freedom of expression” which is how the left got around it when dealing with porn, homos, nude dancing, etc. Actions?
All speech is an action.
He is wrong in claiming that speech is a right granted by the Founding Fathers.
It is a God given right which was Protected by the Founding Fathers.
Comparative literature major Chang Che is just spouting hate speech himself. He should have denounced his own hypocrisy.
The Princeton student needs some toilet paper to wipe his mouth.
I have underwear older than this plebe...................
Another good little totalitarian.
Is chang chee an American Citizen? If not, deport him immediately. If he is, he is an idiot.
Just another imported Maoist
>>A Princeton University student believes that, the pesky First Amendment notwithstanding, offensive speech should be restricted because it really is an action.
I disagree that hate speech is an action, but I do agree that actions are not covered by the freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech is the freedom to engage in discourse, not to break windows or block highways.
My gaydar is pegged.
Funny, in that in the PC world he is worse than a white man, he is an Asian man.
Seems like the grand experiment of the Enlightenment that was the United States of America is dead, and we are now arguing on which god.
So be it. I have already been chosen.
So, ACTION such as Black Lives Matters’ thugs smashing property is considered SPEECH by liberals.
But “hate” SPEECH (i.e., anything the left disagrees with) is ACTION.
Got it! George Orwell was right.
The feds are most certainly not allowed to interfere with free speech as an “action” unless such action threatens imminent physical harm to others. The Constitution does not recognize “hate speech” which is entirely an invention of the Left, nor is “hate speech” forbidden by Constitution.
Free speech is all about freedom to express opinions regardless of “offending” others. There is no Constitutional protection from being “offended”.
Go pound sand you lying leftists. This “professor” is a fraud and a liar.
I want to be a liberal! They get the sweetest deals.
Don’t laugh too much.
The courts managed to turn the 2nd Amendment on its head in the Miller decision. It would be unwarranted optimism to assume they wouldn’t do the same to the First.
It was a terrible tragedy but I could not help but LMAO when this happened. Best prank ever.
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