News you need to learn, especially sissified college students in their sanitary safe spaces – There is no ‘hate speech’ exception

From a letter to the editor regarding students “walking out” of public school classrooms…

The confusion in your editorial begins with its headline, “Hate speech is not free speech.” Under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, there is no “hate speech” exception to America’s general rule of free speech.

Speech cannot be punished simply because someone thinks it embodies hatred unless it independently falls into some recognized exception such as threats, incitement of imminent violence, targeted harassment and so forth, If speech does fall into such an exception, it lacks protection whether or not it expresses hate. That is the view of the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the schools, the court has recognized that there are legitimate reasons for educators to discipline students who insult others or disrupt the classroom, even if the same words spoken away from school might enjoy First Amendment protection. But this ought not to create a system in which educators encourage students on one side of a hotly disputed debate or election to voice their feelings while students on the other side feel inhibited from speaking out with equal vigor, so long as neither side is being disruptive or personally insulting.

Sounds like the editorial staff needs a new lessons on free speech as well. That’s pretty sad if you stop and think about it, but even more pathetic is it’s most likely the new normal.