Legalized hate speech?
Hate speech has been a problem in America with incidents such as the Charlottesville of the summer of 2017, Hate speech is the form of speech attacking a person or group based on their attributes such as ethnic background, sexual orientation, race, and etc. however, hate speech with without the intent to cause violence should be protected because if America were to try and censor another viewpoint and stop these people from expressing their opinions the past would have repeated itself once again with the attempted censorship of civil rights activists or the anti war protesters of the vietnam.
Some would argue that allowing people to discuss their hateful viewpoints would cause themselves to dehumanizing minorities …show more content…
Activists such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr were targeted by the FBI and placed on their wanted/watch list to try to take away the strength of the words of MLK. John Edgar Hoover, the first-ever director of the FBI stated himself that Martin Luther King was a “most notorious liar in the country” in an act of censoring or dismissing his opinion, Another act of censorship to free speech would be the 1970s protests against the Vietnam conflict called Tinker v Des Moines which was the result of the school trying to suspend a group of students from protesting the Vietnam War leading to suspension of all students participating until they stopped wearing their black armbands in an act of silence protest. The case was later taken to the supreme court where they ruled that a school can not take students right to peacefully protest unless it was disruptive to learning. The attempted censorship of the Tinkers shows how in the past people attempted to censor opposing viewpoints which is what seems to be happening in today's day and …show more content…
An example of this can be the presidential elections in 2016. During the elections the now president Donald Trump during his campaign used several forms of hate in his speeches such one on September 30, 2015, in New Hampshire Trump was reported stating that he’s going to kick all Syrians refugees out of America because “They could be ISIS, I don't know. This could be one of the great tactical ploys of all time. A 200,000-man army, maybe,” (Trump 2015). Donald Trump also stating in a rally in Alabama that while watching the event of sept 11 in New Jersey “watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.” (Trump 2016) coincidently during this time period hate crime against people of the Muslim faith risen 67% which is the highest number seen since 2001 after the attack of 9/11( Ansari 2016 CNN). Using this uprise of crime they would argue that this is the sign that the first amendment must be oppressed towards these peoples viewpoints or that censorship is needed. However the is incomplete not for false statistics but rather no clear way of how to solve the problem, Laura Leets wrote a article showing how internet hate groups are a leading cause in hate crime and homicides and stating that the way to stopping hate speech is
Hate speech has been a problem in America with incidents such as the Charlottesville of the summer of 2017, Hate speech is the form of speech attacking a person or group based on their attributes such as ethnic background, sexual orientation, race, and etc. however, hate speech with without the intent to cause violence should be protected because if America were to try and censor another viewpoint and stop these people from expressing their opinions the past would have repeated itself once again with the attempted censorship of civil rights activists or the anti war protesters of the vietnam.
Some would argue that allowing people to discuss their hateful viewpoints would cause themselves to dehumanizing minorities …show more content…
Activists such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr were targeted by the FBI and placed on their wanted/watch list to try to take away the strength of the words of MLK. John Edgar Hoover, the first-ever director of the FBI stated himself that Martin Luther King was a “most notorious liar in the country” in an act of censoring or dismissing his opinion, Another act of censorship to free speech would be the 1970s protests against the Vietnam conflict called Tinker v Des Moines which was the result of the school trying to suspend a group of students from protesting the Vietnam War leading to suspension of all students participating until they stopped wearing their black armbands in an act of silence protest. The case was later taken to the supreme court where they ruled that a school can not take students right to peacefully protest unless it was disruptive to learning. The attempted censorship of the Tinkers shows how in the past people attempted to censor opposing viewpoints which is what seems to be happening in today's day and …show more content…
An example of this can be the presidential elections in 2016. During the elections the now president Donald Trump during his campaign used several forms of hate in his speeches such one on September 30, 2015, in New Hampshire Trump was reported stating that he’s going to kick all Syrians refugees out of America because “They could be ISIS, I don't know. This could be one of the great tactical ploys of all time. A 200,000-man army, maybe,” (Trump 2015). Donald Trump also stating in a rally in Alabama that while watching the event of sept 11 in New Jersey “watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.” (Trump 2016) coincidently during this time period hate crime against people of the Muslim faith risen 67% which is the highest number seen since 2001 after the attack of 9/11( Ansari 2016 CNN). Using this uprise of crime they would argue that this is the sign that the first amendment must be oppressed towards these peoples viewpoints or that censorship is needed. However the is incomplete not for false statistics but rather no clear way of how to solve the problem, Laura Leets wrote a article showing how internet hate groups are a leading cause in hate crime and homicides and stating that the way to stopping hate speech is