I Hate ‘Hate Speech’

[rlvaughn]

I Hate ‘Hate Speech’ by David Robertson

After the Second World War, Soviet Russia was determined to have the concept of ‘hate speech’ enshrined in international legislation. They wanted there to be legal sanctions against ‘hatred and incitement to hatred’. In Maoist China, hate speech was a crime.

George Orwell in his famous 1984 novel was prophetic in his understanding of where society was heading. What he didn’t see was that it would be so-called ‘liberal’ societies that would end up using the concept of hate speech as a form of control.

In his appendix to 1984 he explained how Newspeak worked: “The Purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings.”

It is the classic example of Orwellian Newspeak. We are inclusive but we are going to exclude anyone who does not share our (or our sponsors’) views. We want people to ‘feel safe’ regardless of their religion, unless their religion goes against something that we believe.

 

[church mouse guy]

It is the American left that clearly does not want free speech. They think that free speech obstructs their agenda of a leftist dictatorship and they think that free speech is not a God-given right. The Masters of the Universe have sided with the American left. Also, the American left has sided with jihadi psychopaths in an alliance to obtain power by violence. What the American left does not understand at all is that the jihadi psychopaths will turn on them once Christians, Jews, and capitalists have all been silenced in the USA. The reason that jihadi psychopaths will turn on the American left is that Muhammad said to slay everyone who was not a member of Islam.

So meanwhile the American left is busy silencing the opponents of socialism/communism and the opponents of homosexuality and the opponents of jihadi psychopaths. It does not matter that you are a refugee from communist brutality or that you teach Christian morality or that you are just teaching what jihadi psychopaths say in Arabic in some Indianapolis mosque.

I believe that the American left and their violent jihadi psychopaths will win power in America. As I said before, I then think that the jihadi psychopaths will take power away from the American left by using the lack of free speech that the American left is now instituting. The jihadi psychopaths will say that the American left is slandering the prophet Muhammad. As President Obama said at the UN on September 25, 2012, The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.

Katherine Timpf wrote in National Review yesterday that 41 percent of American university students believe that hate speech such as defined as speaking against the leftist agenda should be punished. Here are a couple of paragraphs from what she said:

What’s always been the most interesting to me is that it seems as though most of the people who want to crack down on people’s First Amendment right to free speech are also people who are very liberal, the same kinds of people who often claim that President Donald Trump is a Nazi. In other words: They want the government to have the power to control speech, they think that the head of the government is a literal Nazi, and yet they don’t see any irony in that. It truly blows my mind.

Everyone isn’t always going to like every person in a position of power in this country, and that’s exactly why we need to keep our speech completely free. If we don’t do that, then our right to speak our minds is subject to the whims of whoever happens to be in power at that time — and that person might have a different view on what kind of speech is or is not acceptable. It could get very scary: If a leader, for example, decided that he or she considered any speech criticizing him or her to be “hate speech,” then we could even lose our right to place a check on government power using our First Amendment right to be critical in that way.

So what are we to do about hateful speech? We speak out against it. That’s right: The way to stop others from saying hateful things is not to use government power to silence them, but rather to use our own freedoms to combat what they say. After all, the only way to ensure that the government doesn’t have the power to police what we say is to make sure that we never give it that power in the first place — because the same laws that could be used to stop speech you don’t like could also at some point be used to silence you.

College Students Misunderstand Hate Speech & First Amendment | National Review

The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. --Barack Hussein Obama

 

[Rob_BW]

I always recommend that everyone read Orwell's essay, Politics and the English Language. It's short, but worth it.

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language

Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to. This time it must of its nature be an imaginary one. I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes:

I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Here it is in modern English:

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.

 

[rlvaughn]

It is the American left that clearly does not want free speech.

And not just American. Israel Folau is an Australian rugby player who made the mistake of saying he doesn't support gay marriage. Once again in that situation the so-called "tolerant crew" prove they can only tolerate what they believe and nothing else. It is a total farce that many seem unable to see through.

...in the name of inclusion they seek to exclude. No self-respecting member of society should dare to have such view and so, in the name of ‘inclusion’ anyone who does will be excluded from respectable society. Rugby Australia says that it is ‘inclusive’, but like the rest of our ‘inclusive’ society it is not prepared to include those who hold to a traditional Christian view of morality, sex and marriage. Or indeed any individual or group who dares to question the new legalism.

Katherine Timpf: So what are we to do about hateful speech? We speak out against it. That’s right: The way to stop others from saying hateful things is not to use government power to silence them, but rather to use our own freedoms to combat what they say.

I must say that I think at times we Christians have also been guilty of wanting the government to take our side so we don't have to use good speech against the bad speech that is wrong. It is with regret I add, and hope I am wrong, that we may be almost beyond the power of good speech to overcome bad speech in our society because so many people are unable to think or to understand plain language -- as opposed to the "Newspeak" type of language they know.

After all, the only way to ensure that the government doesn’t have the power to police what we say is to make sure that we never give it that power in the first place — because the same laws that could be used to stop speech you don’t like could also at some point be used to silence you.

[bold emp. mine] It is hard to fathom that so many people can't understand that the power they yield to government and society in the arena of speech is going to come back to bite them.

 

[Wingman68]

Katherine Timpf wrote in National Review yesterday that 41 percent of American university students believe that hate speech such as defined as speaking against the leftist agenda should be punished.

There is a reason Kat Timpf was able to come out of college with her brain still functioning...........She graduated from Hillsdale College. Unfortunately, most of our children are not attending Hillsdale.