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Princeton op-ed says ‘hate speech’ not protected by 1st Amendment because it’s an ‘action’
College Fix ^ | June 7, 2017 | Dave Huber

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 he’s read J.L. Austin’s How To Do Things With Words it should magically apply to a couple of centuries of free speech jurisprudence.

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The fact that this madness has infested the Ivy League and other elite institutions scares the blank out of me. These are people who will hold positions of power in the future; all the SCOTUS judges have degrees from Ivy League schools. It only tasks five jurists that the Cultural Marxist professors have brain washed to eviscerate the First Amendment.
1 posted on 06/07/2017 1:51:28 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Here he is

2 posted on 06/07/2017 1:53:35 PM PDT by brucedickinson
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To: C19fan

Actions are protected by the First Amendment.

Hard to believe anyone thinks otherwise.


3 posted on 06/07/2017 1:55:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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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?


4 posted on 06/07/2017 1:56:00 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: C19fan

All speech is an action.


5 posted on 06/07/2017 1:57:01 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: brucedickinson

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.


6 posted on 06/07/2017 1:57:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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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.


7 posted on 06/07/2017 1:57:34 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: brucedickinson

I have underwear older than this plebe...................


8 posted on 06/07/2017 1:57:53 PM PDT by Red Badger (You can't assimilate one whose entire reason for being here is to not assimilate in the first place.)
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To: C19fan

Another good little totalitarian.


9 posted on 06/07/2017 1:58:52 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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Is chang chee an American Citizen? If not, deport him immediately. If he is, he is an idiot.


10 posted on 06/07/2017 2:00:44 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: brucedickinson

Just another imported Maoist


11 posted on 06/07/2017 2:01:30 PM PDT by Regulator
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>>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.


12 posted on 06/07/2017 2:02:00 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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My gaydar is pegged.


13 posted on 06/07/2017 2:02:09 PM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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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.


14 posted on 06/07/2017 2:02:28 PM PDT by redgolum
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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.


15 posted on 06/07/2017 2:02:51 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (by the left. But)
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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.


16 posted on 06/07/2017 2:03:15 PM PDT by Jim W N
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I express an opinion you don't like and you get to label it "hate speech" and restrict it because it's an "action."
You set my car on fire protesting...whatever and escape prosecution because that is "speech."

I want to be a liberal! They get the sweetest deals.

17 posted on 06/07/2017 2:03:47 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: brucedickinson
Hey! it's Fuk Yoo
How ya doing sport?
How's Sum Ting Wong today?
18 posted on 06/07/2017 2:04:34 PM PDT by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


19 posted on 06/07/2017 2:05:52 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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A classic to this day:

It was a terrible tragedy but I could not help but LMAO when this happened. Best prank ever.

20 posted on 06/07/2017 2:07:04 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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