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Freedom of Speech and Freedom from Hate speech!
Rarely do I risk all we have put into OPF by treading into the dangerous waters of political and religious prejudice. However, we have here a serious mismatch of freedom with intolerance. It would be unthinkable...
Started by Asher Kelman on
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by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at openphotographyforums):
"If you want to be able to say what you in America is the absolute right... .
As we do, then it comes also with responsibility too to help heal the wounds hate speech must said, a commitment to free speech means it must be permitted.
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Branching off the issues raised in this thread.
What constitutes hate speech? Does hate speech legislation succeed at preventing harm to identifiable groups? Is the concept of freedom of speech truly worth allowing public communications of hatred and ...
Started by Teia Rabishu on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at mtgsalvation):
If it is hate speech and the speech would normally constitute be tried as such.
What matters is the crime.
That's legalized not matter.
There should not be any separate category for hate crime or hate speech.
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FYI:
Legal aspects in the United States and elsewhere
In the United States, government is broadly forbidden by the First Amendment to the Constitution from restricting speech. Jurists generally understand this to mean that the government cannot regulate...
Started by xrayspecs on
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by 13 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at sillysoft):
And as such we....
Lux is an enlightened dictatorship...
And as such we should self regulate hate speech.
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I got into a debate the other day, with a guy on youtube about hate speech. My opinion is that hate speech is reprehensible idiotic blather, that should in no way be censored.
My belief is based primarily on the US constitution and a personal belief in...
Started by Kass-ID on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at whatisgender):
If we hear hate speech, we can as I may want....
Hate speech can be a problem when it leads to hateful actions, but just telling people to shut up hate is worse because the repression could build up to a violent act.
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What follows are Facebooks Community Standards:
Hate Speech
Facebook does not permit hate speech. While we encourage you to challenge ideas, institutions, events, and practices, it is a serious violation to attack a person based on their race, ethnicity...
Started by bedub1 on
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by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at conquerclub):
The religious person is just a single ....
God gives you ideas.
God gives you ideas.
God gives you ideas.
Religion is a belief, not an idea.
God" is an idea.
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Now you can't say "illegal"? As liberals try to annihilate free speech, is it time to get rid of "hate speech"? I am offended practically every day when I go into work. Through "hate speech," people call me an "old man" because I'm over 50. The liberals...
Started by Joe on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at yahoo):
Second Paragraph: These hate a crime, until you protect the different....
That you made a statement/question regarding the erosion of free speech should indicate to you this, then rest assured that workplace hostility would rise tenfold in a day.
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Birth announcement thread is linked below and will be restickied shortly.
We've been seeing a lot of the use of the word "retarded" , One of our MODs explains. "It isn't about the particular word in use, it is about using any language to imply that developmentally...
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Quote: : Quote: : Quote: : Boggles the mind that the original letter writing doesn't realize that there are actually limits on "free speech" in general (e.g. yelling 'fire' in a theatre, using an offensive word, etc.) Sheesh.
Started by HappyNaomi on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at pogo):
Yelling 'fire' in a theatre, using an offensive that there are actually... .
Most of the audience that there are actually limits on "free speech" in general (e.g.
Speaker render a vitriolic hate-filled speech including the term in question.
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From Fr Z's blog:
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/11/anti-chr ... tprs-poll/
Father Quote: : A billboard in New Jersey is promoting atheism by asking motorists to question certain holiday traditions and to “celebrate reason,” MyFoxNY.com reports.
Fox Quote...
Started by pilgrim on
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Which is the worst, but not only, problem....
I'm not a fan of the whole concept of hate speech, and I'm of "hate speech" is that the speech in question should be illegal.
Technically constitute hate speech.
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School Says Jesus Shirt is Hate Speech School Says Jesus Shirt is Hate Speech
May 4, 2012
By Todd Starnes
A Canadian high school student was suspended for a week because wore a t-shirt promoting his Christian beliefs and he was told if he wears it again...
Started by Dennis Olson on
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by 16 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at timebomb2000):
This is the liberal mindset, Christians = hate, other religions are OK because they are of minorities, Islam, Christians = hate....
The name "Jesus" is hate speech....it brings the HATE right out of people who HATE Him.
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