Doesn’t it just eat you up when people think that they can say whatever they want, and try to make an excuse saying they have a right to freedom of speech? While reading an article, a female journalist by the name of Melanie Philips said “Giving offense or hurting someone’s feelings or making them feel unloved should never be prohibited. We should surely all be robust enough to things not least by combating such opinions with other ideas which pose a real threat, which are responsible for society has a duty to court.” Basically, Mrs. Philips is saying that we should be able to be well educated enough to say appropriate things and have sense over things that come out of our mouths enough to where we can be held accountable for consequences that
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Ian McEwan said in his essay “Defend Free Speech,” “ And you’ve come of age in a country where the enrichment of free speech in the First Amendment is not an empty phrase, as it is in many constitutions, but a living reality.” To me, it means The First Amendment means something here in the U.S. So for people to abuse that privileged right and make out of it wrong doing, is a shame. As said by a UW-Madison student named Devon Snyder, “There is a difference between exercising your rights and disguising that said right in the form of bigotry and hate.” In addition to that, it really is. You can definitely exercise your rights by doing things like peaceful protesting and putting your efforts into something like trying to make things better in your community. Many people around the world are punished for even saying their opinions and we have the right to and abuse it. It’s just not …show more content…
Anthropologist Francio Guadeloupe said, “An effective counter- approach to racism was to focus on the creation of inclusive cultural celebration.” Moreover, you should not act a way or think of another race negatively before you know it. You should study it to better understand behaviors and different customs of which you are not used to. No one deserves to be judged just because they look a certain way, dress, speak, or even behave differently than what you are used to. Every person has a story, don’t judge people before you truly know them. Their truth might surprise
Ian McEwan said in his essay “Defend Free Speech,” “ And you’ve come of age in a country where the enrichment of free speech in the First Amendment is not an empty phrase, as it is in many constitutions, but a living reality.” To me, it means The First Amendment means something here in the U.S. So for people to abuse that privileged right and make out of it wrong doing, is a shame. As said by a UW-Madison student named Devon Snyder, “There is a difference between exercising your rights and disguising that said right in the form of bigotry and hate.” In addition to that, it really is. You can definitely exercise your rights by doing things like peaceful protesting and putting your efforts into something like trying to make things better in your community. Many people around the world are punished for even saying their opinions and we have the right to and abuse it. It’s just not …show more content…
Anthropologist Francio Guadeloupe said, “An effective counter- approach to racism was to focus on the creation of inclusive cultural celebration.” Moreover, you should not act a way or think of another race negatively before you know it. You should study it to better understand behaviors and different customs of which you are not used to. No one deserves to be judged just because they look a certain way, dress, speak, or even behave differently than what you are used to. Every person has a story, don’t judge people before you truly know them. Their truth might surprise