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The right to free speech wasn't intended to protect "love speech". Popular speech doesn't need protecting; unpopular (often rhetorically construed as "hate") sp
by ctdonath 9y ago
The right to free speech wasn't intended to protect "love speech". Popular speech doesn't need protecting; unpopular (often rhetorically construed as "hate") speech does.
- drewrv 9y agoHate speech has a pretty strict definition that goes far beyond "unpopular".
- ue_ 9y ago> unpopular (often rhetorically construed as "hate") speech does. Why?
- ctdonath 9y agoWhy only protect popular speech? The whole point of "right to free speech" is that one may earnestly believe something that another may earnestly take offense to; the state shouldn't be able to punish someone for saying something another simply doesn't like (say, "abortion is murder" which may understandably offend someone who had an abortion and be construe the comment as "hate speech").