2aguy
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Howard Dean, former head of the racist party, the democrat party, states that the 1st Amendment doesn't protect all speech....only speech he agrees with...
Former DNC Head Howard Dean: âHate Speech Is Not Free Speechâ
e Democrats have now spent two generations explaining that the true threat to free speech resides on the religious right, those fascistic John-Lithgow-from-Footloose types who just canât wait to smash their Bibles in the faces of those who only want to read their lesbian pornography magazines.
In reality, thereâs only one side of the American political debate fully committed to destroying the First Amendment: the Left.
On Thursday, former head of the Democratic National Committee and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean tweeted this:
Hate speech is not protected by the first amendment.
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This is ignorance of the highest order.
Of course âhate speechâ is protected by the First Amendment. There are only a few categories of speech that arenât protected by the First Amendment: so-called fighting words, specific and deliberate calls to violence, child pornography, defamation. But there is no category of âhate speechâ here, for a simple reason: what you deem hate speech may be political speech you just donât like. In Canada, for example, the law has forced commentators like Mark Steyn into court for criticizing Islam. This is a violation of freedom, and the First Amendment doesnât contemplate it.
Former DNC Head Howard Dean: âHate Speech Is Not Free Speechâ
e Democrats have now spent two generations explaining that the true threat to free speech resides on the religious right, those fascistic John-Lithgow-from-Footloose types who just canât wait to smash their Bibles in the faces of those who only want to read their lesbian pornography magazines.
In reality, thereâs only one side of the American political debate fully committed to destroying the First Amendment: the Left.
On Thursday, former head of the Democratic National Committee and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean tweeted this:
Hate speech is not protected by the first amendment.
-------
This is ignorance of the highest order.
Of course âhate speechâ is protected by the First Amendment. There are only a few categories of speech that arenât protected by the First Amendment: so-called fighting words, specific and deliberate calls to violence, child pornography, defamation. But there is no category of âhate speechâ here, for a simple reason: what you deem hate speech may be political speech you just donât like. In Canada, for example, the law has forced commentators like Mark Steyn into court for criticizing Islam. This is a violation of freedom, and the First Amendment doesnât contemplate it.