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In reply to the discussion: Should hate Speech be banned and criminalized? [View all]jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)I've made this argument here before and I'll make it again: We're one of the few Western nations that doesn't have some sort of hate speech laws on the books and it greatly diminishes us as a civilized nation. Hate speech is an act of violence and must be dealt with as such. The First Amendment does not protect acts of violence last I checked.
If the people in the U.K. and other parts of Western Europe can make their hate speech laws work within the context of a free, democratic society, I don't understand why we can't. Trump and his legion of white supremacist terrorist deplorables would either be in prison or forced to the extreme fringe of our nation without a public voice, as well it should be, if we had sensible hate speech laws on the books.
It's time for us as a nation to catch up with the rest of the civilized world and ban hate speech once and for all.