Showing posts with label hate speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hate speech. Show all posts

Jacob Sullum: Despite Stand Against the Terrorist's Veto, France Treats Offensive Words and Images as Crimes

Charlie Hebdo in the dock.       On Sunday, as more than a million people marched through the streets of Paris in support of the right to draw cartoons without being murdered, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication declared that "artistic freedom and freedom of expression stand firm and unflinching at the heart of our common European  ... MORE

Mick Hume: The Awful Truth About Free Speech

So your offended? Deal with it.    Time to stop paying lip service to the principle and take a stand in practice. Almost everybody in Western society with more than two brain cells to rub together supports freedom of speech. Or so they say. Blasphemers might be sentenced to death in Islamic states, and the internet might be censored to death in  ... MORE

Poll: 51% Of Dems Support Criminalizing Hate Speech

First Amendment is so yesterday.    Note: Hate speech, not hate crimes. YouGov asked people about hate crimes for its poll too and found bipartisan support for the federal law that provides steeper penalties for crimes motivated by hatred of the victim’s race, religion, gender, or national origin. Sixty-four percent of Dems gave thumbs-up to   ... MORE

Feds Creating Database To Track Hate Speech On Twitter

by Elizabeth Harrington.  The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter. The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major   ... MORE

Matt Welch: When the Left Turned Against Free Speech

The demise of the Free Speech Movement.       On March 4, in a designated "free-speech zone" at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), associate professor of feminist studies Mireille Miller-Young walked over to a 16-year-old anti-abortion protester named Thrin Short and demanded that Short take down a graphic sign     ... MORE

John Stossel: Offensive Speech

We need more speech, not less.   Last week, when the NBA banned racist team owner Donald Sterling, some said: "What about free speech? Can't a guy say what he thinks anymore?" The answer: yes, you can. But the free market may punish you. In America today, the market punishes racists aggressively. This punishment is not "censorship."        ... MORE

VIDEO: 10 Dumbest Quotes About Video Games


The option-destoyers are relentless. Actual quotations from high-profile idiots!

Andrew Napolitano: Race And Freedom

America should be a free speech zone.     Cliven Bundy should be happy for the public revelation of the private comments of fellow racist Donald Sterling; the latter has replaced the former as the person Americans most love to hate. These two bigots recently spewed racial hatred: Bundy suggesting that African-Americans might do      ... MORE

Should White NFL Owners Shackle Black Language?

New rule targets black players.    The NFL is expected to consider a new rule that would see players receive a 15-yard penalty if they use the N-word on the field. Michael Wilbon, an opponent of the potential rule, used the word on live television Monday to make his point. Wilbon, co-host of ESPN’s Pardon The Interruption, argues that although it    ... MORE

Hate Speech: A Pretense For The New Inquisition

by Craig Parshall.        An effective tool to suppress free thought. Recently, 12 members of the House of Representatives signed on to H.R. 3878, a bill that would launch an investigation into any "role" that might be played by radio, television, and the Internet to supposedly "encourage" the commission of hate crimes. I have been       ... MORE

The Unbridled Hate Of Hate Speech Laws

by Frank Salvato.      I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” This quote, often attributed to Voltaire, is at the heart of our First Amendment right to free speech, at least where the authority of our government is concerned. A free society, and, in fact, a free people, must be able to speak freely in order to     ... MORE

VIDEO: Professor Dave Fights For Free Speech On Campus

Harassment and liberty.        The Foundation for Individual Rights in Higher Education would like to introduce you to Dave. A “born philosopher” and “intellectual rebel,” Dave grew up to be a college professor, a position he thought would allow him to help young college students challenge conventional wisdom and explore new ideas.   ... MORE

A Rare Stand For Free Speech Over Political Correctness

Unpopular speech is what needs protection.       Councilwoman Elisa Chan defended anti-gay remarks made during a secretly recorded staff meeting, saying at a news conference Tuesday that she won't change her “values or beliefs for political gain or survival.” The statements mark Chan's first public appearance since San Antonio Express-News    ... MORE

How Political Correctness Is Destroying America

Michael Snyder provides 19 shocking examples.       If you say the “wrong thing” in America today, you could be penalized, fired or even taken to court.  Political correctness is running rampant, and it is absolutely destroying this nation.  In his novel 1984, George Orwell imagined a future world where speech was greatly restricted.      ... MORE

Victor Davis Hanson: Hate Thought

Self-appointed liberal referees will decide.   When do insensitive words destroy reputations? It all depends. Celebrity chef Paula Deen was dropped by her TV network, her publisher and many of her corporate partners after she testified in a legal deposition that she used the N-word some 30 years ago. The deposition was filed in a lawsuit against  ... MORE