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View Poll Results: Should the Federal government ban offensive speech against minorities?
Yes 4 10.26%
No 35 89.74%
Voters: 39. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 11-22-2015, 07:35 AM
 
Location: Plymouth Meeting, PA.
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I saw this in the news and believe it to some extent but want to take a poll of the millennials
on this board.

Should offensive speech against any minority be banned by the federal government and why?
and how?
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Old 11-22-2015, 07:39 AM
 
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I'm not a Millennial so I didn't vote but isn't offensive speech already categorized as "hate speech"?
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Old 11-22-2015, 07:43 AM
 
Location: Plymouth Meeting, PA.
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I'm not a Millennial so I didn't vote but isn't offensive speech already categorized as "hate speech"?
yes depending on who you are aiming it at.
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Old 11-22-2015, 07:44 AM
 
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Describe offensive. Sometimes the truth is offensive. Should we stifle the truth?
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Old 11-22-2015, 07:47 AM
 
Location: NJ/NY
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I'm not a Millennial so I didn't vote but isn't offensive speech already categorized as "hate speech"?
Perhaps you are confusing hate speech with hate crimes?

Hate speech is legal in the United States, and the first amendment has held up against challenge several times in the Supreme Court.

In the US, hate speech only has meaning when applied to the internal rules of private institutions.
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Old 11-22-2015, 07:50 AM
 
Location: Plymouth Meeting, PA.
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Describe offensive. Sometimes the truth is offensive. Should we stifle the truth?
Good point!
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Old 11-22-2015, 07:52 AM
 
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Describe offensive. Sometimes the truth is offensive. Should we stifle the truth?
So if I said that most crime in a certain city is committed by African Americans that would be the truth, but to Millennials that would be offensive so therefore would be against the law.

I'm afraid that is what this means. They are already practicing this in Minneapolis in the major newspaper. For years they refuse to print the Washington "Redskins" team name. When the Vikings play the Redskins they call it "Washington's NFL team"

When a minority follows a student into a secured building on the U of M campus and rapes an 18 year old woman they refuse to give a description of the assailant unless they are white. If they are a minority they just don't give a description.

So in their world, it's more important to be progressive than to ask the public for help finding a dangerous criminal who could rape again. They don't care about our children and their safety. Probably because most of them are too selfish to actually have children of their own or they like the same flavor they were made of.

This is why we need morality laws to keep nuts like this from getting into positions of authority over normal people...or they have to sign an agreement to at least make their decisions in the interest of people with FAMILIES and people who care about right and wrong.
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Old 11-22-2015, 07:56 AM
 
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"Trigger words", "micro-aggression" and anything at all that "hurts my feelings" ..... are now deemed by these whiny kids as "hate speech". THEY want to be able to decided what is "hate speech" and make it "illegal".

Scary bunch of whiners and their Enablers - The colleges and universities of the USA.
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Old 11-22-2015, 08:00 AM
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"Trigger words", "micro-aggression" and anything at all that "hurts my feelings" ..... are now deemed by these whiny kids as "hate speech". THEY want to be able to decided what is "hate speech" and make it "illegal".

Scary bunch of whiners and their Enablers - The colleges and universities of the USA.
Agreed. They need to grow up. Universities need to stop putting up with that nonsense. Parents need to stop raising little monsters who get offended about everything.

How are these people supposed to function in the real world where you don't get a trophy just for showing up?
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Old 11-22-2015, 08:01 AM
 
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My first hint of this was when my oldest child, my daughter was in elementary school. It was a typical Catholic school, just like the one I went to. We were walking through the playground (I was volunteering for something that day in her class) and these boys were working out their problems in the way boys do...wrestling and other boys were watching. No big deal. My daughter says "those two need a peer mediator" to me. I busted out laughing and asked her what the h*ll that is? They've been taught from very young age to think differently than us. I thought at the time it was good. Who doesn't want their kids to be smarter and kinder than they are? I know how these fights went when I was a kid, after you got your butt kicked on the playground the nun would give you another after. Now it's peer mediators.

But this is the generation. I think in many ways it may be better...but our enemies didn't teach their children this way. They taught them to kill first and ask questions later.
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