There is no ‘hate speech’ or ‘love speech’—there is only speech & it’s a human right to use it ‘freely’. #FreeSpeech
Civics pop quiz: Under US constitutional law, is 'hate speech' a legally protected & permitted form of free speech?
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Yeah, this is my understanding. As long as it's not libel, slander, yelling fire in a crowded theater etc, it doesn't need a special category. Speech should be free.
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The 1A, much like many other amendments, is no stranger to being violated, see The Sedition Act of 1798...at a certain point, you have to question the viability of the Constitution to preserve liberties...
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The question is what is warranted restraint. [1] We should restrain people from yelling fire in a theater. [2] More controversially, we should constrain speech that inculcates a sense of victimhood against some scapegoated group -- the essence of propaganda.
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Should ad "not anymore" option
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Misread, change my vote to YES
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Where is, "depends on who you ask?"
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The problem with almost all "hate" laws, IMO, is t haat "hate" denotes motive, and our legal tradition treats motive as evidence, not an element of a crime. *Intent* is an element, because it demonstrates that an action was taken with the purpose to bring about a *result*.
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In general, we are more concerned with the consequences of actions than the impetus for those actions. There are a few reasons for this. One, is that consequences can be objectively proven, because we can touch them, see them, etc. Reasons for actions (motives) are inherently ...
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Civil disagreement is most certainly protected, regardless of what label communists try to place upon it.
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