Political Correctness And Hate Speech Analysis

While most would agree that the aforementioned pros to this issue are important, political correctness simply isn't the means for obtaining these benefits. Augusto Zimmerman and Lorraine Finlay not only hold strongly to this view (which disagrees with Corolla’s) but go as far to contend “Absolute free speech under all circumstances can never be a possibility… speech advocating or inciting direct acts of violence and direct attacks on the physical integrity of another person should never be protected” (188). At first, their statement of complete free speech being an impossibility might come across as a completely unpatriotic idea, but regardless of personal feelings towards their thoughts, it is simply a fact. As uncomfortable and ethically incorrect as it might be, hate speech simply isn't a valid reason to impose limits on free speech. …show more content…
Within their article, Zimmerman and Finlay give reason for this belief that hate speech and threats to the personal safety of an individual hold different levels of gravity, proclaiming “While the idea of inciting violence links the expression of thoughts into actions, the idea of hate speech links the expression of thoughts to no more than simply thoughts” (189). So, according to this remark, thoughts are nothing more than thoughts; and while they may impose severe discomfort upon an individual, they cause no physical harm to the target, and therefore fall under the right to free speech in America. This is where the individual’s strength and resolute character must rise above the hate to successful supplant hate