{"id":5587,"date":"2017-04-24T05:41:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T05:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/24\/hate-speech\/"},"modified":"2017-04-24T05:41:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T05:41:41","slug":"hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/24\/hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

There's no such thing<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Glenn Reynolds talks sense<\/a> against such liberal knuckleheads as Howard Dean:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The other hallmark of constitutional illiteracy is the claim that the First Amendment doesn\u2019t protect \u201chate speech<\/a>.\u201d And by making that claim last week, Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and Democratic presidential candidate, revealed himself to be a constitutional illiterate. Then, predictably, he doubled down<\/a> on his ignorance.<\/span><\/p>\n

In First Amendment law, the term \u201chate speech\u201d is meaningless. All speech is equally protected whether it\u2019s hateful or cheerful. It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s racist, sexist or in poor taste, unless speech falls into a few very narrow categories \u2014 like \u201ctrue threats,\u201d which have to address a specific individual, or \u201cincitement,\u201d which must constitute an immediate and intentional encouragement to imminent lawless action \u2014 it\u2019s protected.<\/span><\/p>\n

The term \u201chate speech\u201d was invented by people who don\u2019t like that freedom, and who want to give the \u2014 completely false \u2014 impression that there\u2019s a kind of speech that the First Amendment doesn\u2019t protect because it\u2019s hateful. What they mean by \u201chateful,\u201d it seems, is really just that it\u2019s speech they don\u2019t agree with. Some even try to argue that since hearing disagreeable ideas is unpleasant, expressing those ideas is somehow an act of \u201cviolence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I would add that 'liberals' have a strange tendency to conflate dissent with hate.  Obviously, if I dissent from what you maintain, it does not follow that I hate you.  And if I express my dissent in speech, it does not follow that my speech is 'hate speech.'<\/span><\/p>\n

I suspect most 'liberals' have the intellectual equipment to grasp these simple distinctions. So what ought we conclude? That they are hate-filled individuals?<\/span><\/p>\n

And another thing. If a liberal claims that the Great Wall of Trump is 'hateful,' then I will put to him the question: Is it 'hateful' <\/span> when you lock your doors at night? No? But doesn't anyone have the right to 'migrate' anywhere he pleases?  You just hate people that are different from you, you xenophobe!<\/span><\/p>\n

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There's no such thing. Glenn Reynolds talks sense against such liberal knuckleheads as Howard Dean: The other hallmark of constitutional illiteracy is the claim that the First Amendment doesn\u2019t protect \u201chate speech.\u201d And by making that claim last week, Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and Democratic presidential candidate, revealed himself to be a constitutional … Continue reading “Hate Speech”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}