Why draw the line at racism,homophobia, etc? Why not just ban all negativity? We don't want any differing opinions in our politics. Hell, let's just ban the word "no" and any of its variants. This is the YES generation.
Ian Bell
there is no such thing as hate speech you dumb cunt
'muh fee fees' is not an argument
Justin Perez
Banning racist language doesn't ban racists.
It's a masturbatory exercise in futility.
Jackson Jenkins
because its 2016
Easton Ross
because it would take 3/4 of all states and 2/3 of congressional support to do that aka it will never happen.
try again.
Thomas Rodriguez
t. an oppressive white person
Joshua Gray
From an American? Jesus... I thought your country was cool with the 2nd ammendment and what not. Basically, I'm assuming you stumbled in here from CTR, but I'll correct this record for free.
If you don't allow people to speak their mind because it risks causing offence, then where do you draw the line? According to this facts and statistics which suggest racial differences coule be construed as being offensive. Now, you can say that you would just ban offensive shit or whatever, but who actually decides where you draw the line? It is far easier to not police peoples shit at all. Beyond that, have you tried not watching your speech? It's fucking fun. I simply love watching faggots hyperventilating over my verbal freedom.
Ryan Williams
There are legitimate reasons why we don't ban speech. It's so we can reconize why something is wrong (Like gun control or minimum wage), or for the less informed people can learn about ideas they opposed before (like racism and hating Jews/Muslims)
Connor Walker
Yeah but I can just call the politicians reprehensible shitlords if they say "no" to my proposal because that's exactly the kind of behavior I'm trying to ban.
Hudson Scott
1984
Ayden Gomez
That's not an argument either ?
Matthew Allen
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Nolan Allen
this is exactly my point. if we had regulated speech people wouldn't be in poverty due to low wages and they wouldn't be killed by guns. also they wouldn't know about racism and hatred because it'd be illegal.
Luis Watson
>Cred Forums tell me why banning the use of racial, misogynist, homophobic, islamophobic, transphobic, etc s is bad Who decides what those things are and enforces them? What if that power changes hands and gets used in ways you disagree with?
Andrew Price
>is this a paid shill? >an ironic post? or legit retarded?
Jonathan Lopez
>implying the definitions of any of those terms are ambiguous or vague
you people really don't have any arguments do you?
other than it's my WHITE privilege to call someone a n****r.
Thomas Young
so your position is ban the first and second amendment
Is your last name Barack by any chance?
Hunter Wright
Who said you're idea would get that much support?
Jackson Morales
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Lincoln Miller
Why can't it be your privilige to call someone a nigger. Why does everything have to be about the big bad whitey with you googles.
Samuel Anderson
Yes there is you filthy fucking commie. As soon as you start policing speech at all for any reason it's gg no re for free speech. For example, consider the anti hate speech laws recently passed in canuckistan. What is hate speech and who gets to define it? How long until criticising the liberal party or grand commisar Trudeau will get you a visit from the sharia squads? The only exemptions to this should be libel and slander, as those are proven false statements intended to do damage to a person.
Sebastian Nelson
This is bait. Rate my meme.
Michael Walker
>there is no legitimate argument against banning the use of racial, misogynist, homophobic, islamophobic, transphobic, etc slurs Yes there is retard, because who writes the rules?
I'm not even white you fucking nigger. I'm the mexican of southeast asia.
Michael Diaz
Read the first amendment again.
Mason Sanders
Banning "hate speech" leads to the truth being a crime.
Noah Young
Because you control freaks banned drugs yet I just did cocaine last weekend.
Ayden White
Hate speech is a social construct. Just like freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, and so on.
It will stop racists from spreading their message and recruiting others to their cause, though.
If you cannot trust the government with the power to regulate speech, how can you trust them with the power to run the country?
Chase Gomez
>smiling at male strangers when you walk past them
no wonder you guys are always getting shot
Parker Myers
I provided an argument, and you just hand waved it away without answering the question.
How do you define these terms in a way that isn't subjective? How do you sentence people for use of them without the rulings being subjective and therefore applied inequitably?
And, if this authority were supplied how do you prevent it from eventually being misused if the people given that authority use it for other purposes?
It's much easier to expand the authority of government than it is to scale it back. You provide government with the authority to censor speech, and they can turn against you and censor your speech with that authority. You provided it to protect peoples feelings, and they'll use it to protect their position from your attempts to reduce their influence over you.
>all these literal retards who don't get the joke in the post being that it's racist against whites
Luke Edwards
I agree, the gov has way over steeped its legitimate role, we need to reign it back in
Liam Martinez
i got four words for you you dumb motherfucker SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED
Connor Green
>If you cannot trust the government with the power to regulate speech, how can you trust them with the power to run the country? I can't trust the government to regulate speech. So again, I don't provide them the authority to do so.
You only provide the authority that you have means of recourse to fix through petitioning the government. If you remove your right to free speech, you will unintentionally undercut your ability to criticize the government.
Aaron Harris
>It will stop racists from spreading their message and recruiting others to their cause, though.
This is what absolute retards actually believe
Levi Gray
>Making drugs, a physical object, illegal don't work >let's make certain formations of the vocal chords with air passing over them illegal
Kayden Gray
>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Parker Allen
but your "argument's" premises are false so...there was nothing to refute...
Ryder Williams
>linguistically oppress It's so cute when you leftykikes think you're intelligent.
Mason Baker
no there's nothing there. you literally cannot be racist against whites.
>brazilian education
Joseph Sanders
it's called a constitutional amendment.
Dylan Sanchez
Those aren't the right words. The correct words you're looking for is "CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW."
Camden Walker
i know what i said commie
Jack Hall
Yeah, good luck on ramming that through.
Jonathan Anderson
HOW DO YOU DEFINE THESE WORDS IN A WAY THAT ISN'T SUBJECTIVE?
HOW IN A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT DO YOU PREVENT THIS AUTHORITY FROM BACKFIRING WHEN THE PUBLIC ELECTS REPRESENTATIVES WHO END UP USING THAT SAME AUTHORITY IN WAYS THAT ARE THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU INTENDED?
Those are not false premises. You want to control specific types of speech. Who would be doing that controlling and how would you ensure that it was controlled in the way you want it to be?
Joshua King
/faggot/ tell me why banning googles skypes skittles women, etc is bad
Obviously these subhumans want to stay because the USA is the best country in the world to be in, at the cost of making it worse.
There is no legitimate argument against banning these groups.
Isaiah Martinez
Yeah sure and amending the Bill of Rights to remove or limit a protected right is number one on the list of "things that will cause a civil war."
Bentley Powell
You are presupposing that the party doing the banning has perfect knowledge of what is "legitimate" and what is not. Every policy disagreement in history has each side regarding its opposition as illegitimate and often also as insane.
Oliver Garcia
I didn't know homophobic speech needed to be defined...
Owen Rivera
>obviously white people don't want this to happen What you going on about jamal? It's precisely white people who are pushing for this crap. The others are too busy simply chimping out in response to it to formulate a counter-attack.
David Murphy
I now define your post as homophobic speech. The authorities are to have you sentenced to 2 years in prison. The police will arrest you in 15 minutes.
Tyler Garcia
>Yeah sure and amending the Bill of Rights to remove or limit a protected white privilege is number one on the list of "things that will cause a civil war."
FTFY
also we won the first one we can win the second one.
Kevin Ross
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Joseph Gonzalez
1st fucking Amendment you fucking Marxist cuck.
Zachary Richardson
>It will stop racists from spreading their message and recruiting others to their cause, though. If they are able to sway peoples opinions so easily, then doesn't that mean that racism might have some value to it? If it was just complete nonsense that had no leg to stand on there wouldn't be any concern for people becoming racists (except the ones who were indoctrinated from birth, and you can't fix them with your proposal anyway)
So in other words OP is an idiot, and hasn't actually given this real thought.
Evan Diaz
>I want to make something illegal without defining it
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG???
Owen Brown
Again, this is why you don't have an argument. This wouldn't get rid of due process...so the government still has the burden of proof when prosecuting people for oppressive speech.
Gavin Lopez
Well is homophobic speech bad?
Charles Reyes
I've always wondered how conscious the left is of constructing the apparatus of a police state. Or better yet, how badly things could go wrong on their own end.
When the pendulum comes back, are the left aware that virtually all of their policies can be used against them?
Evan James
I screencapped your post that's all the proof I need ;^)
Carter Long
Define: Oppressive speech
Without a definition, it's completely arbitrary, and thus, anything could be called oppressive speech.
Ian Nelson
Fuck off, nigger.
Dominic Long
>When the pendulum comes swinging back
they think their politics are "on the right side of history" aka "all people forever will unquestioningly accept this as the best"
Daniel Wood
>This wouldn't get rid of due process...so the government still has the burden of proof when prosecuting people for oppressive speech. Due process that involves evaluating subjective things such as speech. So again, how would to define these things in non-subjective ways so that the sentences would not become equally subjective.
The Congress has since your passing of the law changed the definition of these terms they enforce.
You are in contempt of court. Your sentence has been lengthened to 3 years for questioning the ruling of the Judge.
Levi Ramirez
its in the OP
Cameron Johnson
>oppressive >speech You do realise that you're talking about literally illegalizing wrongthink, right?
Owen Flores
>America founded upon rebelling from oppressive tyranny
If a muslim immigrant from Syria expresses distaste toward Jews, should he be jailed? What about if an Isreali expresses distaste at the Muslim faith, when their religious leaders explicitly state that Isreal shouldn't exist?
Michael Parker
If it's called Freedom of Speech, then why should certain words or phrase be illegal?
I'm so fucking curious
Aaron Gomez
>If they are able to sway peoples opinions so easily, then doesn't that mean that racism might have some value to it? No. Just because an idea is easily spread and appeals to idiots, doesn't mean the idea is inherently good. Do you think Communism is valid because it sounds appealing to many people?
Carter Cruz
because it hurts his fee fees, obviously.
Grayson Ramirez
>there is no legitimate argument against banning the use of racial, misogynist, homophobic, islamophobic, transphobic, etc slurs But there is:
Who decides what is racial, misogynist, Xphobic? What if your speech were considered Yphobic? In fact, this post can be seen as a caucasiaphobic remark, whose ONLY purpose is to insight hate between whites and others, therefore it should be removed.
Sucks when you're on the receiving end, no? The idea is that no group of people has the right to tell any individual what they can and can not say. While I find your post ignorant and simple-minded, I don't think it should be banned.
Jeremiah Jackson
Hmmm. A brighter tomorrow you say? Bring on the light. I welcome it
Zachary Morgan
>if we had regulated speech people wouldn't be in poverty due to low wages and they wouldn't be killed by guns care to draw me a sketch of that proof?
>if no one can say mean things, everyone will be happy from now on until forever
grow up
Luis Morris
Right now there is due process. But what's stopping them from saying "no due process if hate speech is used"? It may not happen, but if we ban one word, some people will find others. The words themselves are the tool, the speaker the worker. Don't blame a hammer for nicking your thumb, blame yourself for missing the nail
Kayden Ross
>if no one says mean things, people would be happy forever
I don't think he knows about people dying from old age or diseases
Gabriel Lewis
Why are you being ageist and ableist? Off to the gulag with you.
Liam Watson
>white people don't want this You just answered your own question.
Luis Edwards
see
Isaiah Cruz
k. keep me posted.
Ryan Ortiz
DASLEAF.jpg
yes, i can´t be bothered to upload the image. fuck you.
Nicholas Davis
But the point is no is banned, so they must vote yes. Checkmate.
Sebastian Wood
i like your meme. also, yes, this is bait
Christopher Roberts
Your post was oppressive because its only purpose was to incite violence by pissing off white people. By stating that white people obviously don't want this to happen, while fully aware of white people who are in favor of banning hate speech, you are actively trying to deceive and incite anger, agression, and violence.
See you in court.
Joseph Scott
That pic is accurate OP. Although it's usually reaction, because pic related is how black people "smile" at white people.
Jonathan Russell
That doesn't solve any underlying issues, we should be free to use whatever words we want, but choose to not do so.
Do you understand that concept?
Of course you don't, your idea of a conversation is probably spewing tumblr quotes until you burst a fucking blood vessel in your eye.
Tyler Mitchell
Communism is a valid idea, but it only works in small communities, it would never work in a country. So, the people that communism appeals to are the idiots you are talking about. And I'm all for spreading these ideas, even if the only people who eat them up are stupid, because at the end of the day the smarter people can always prove them wrong if need be.
Joseph Sanders
Because when you take an individuals voice you harm everyone in society. No matter how well your intentions nothing good comes from strangling basic rights of the people
By restricting our rights you become the "Nazi Fascist" you claim to hate.
Isaac Cruz
Like I said , plenty of hate and violence in the OP coming from you. It is clear that you are slandering an entire race of people, many of whom are leaders in censoring hate speech.
We can only conclude that your post was meant to incite violence. Now we got you on hate speech AND intent to incite a riot. How's that due process working for you?
Jackson Sullivan
>If you cannot trust the government with the power to regulate speech, how can you trust them with the power to run the country? >It's easier to monitor the population 24/7 and police every single thing said by every citezen at all times, than to simply keep the country from falling apart.
Wew
Daniel Gonzalez
Holy shit are you 12
Jaxson White
Fuck off nigger faggot Saged
Matthew Roberts
I propose we trademark "Nigga®", since it seems to be ok to use that. This is Cred Forums, the last hope for free speech. I have been called a nigger I have been called a faggot. I have been called a nigger-faggot. None of that upset me, although I have gotten quite autistic over being called a "redditor".
What happens if someone tells a tasteless joke? Does that justify violence? Police intervention? Nigga®z are likely to get shot then.
A better solution is to inform the offender that their comment was in bad taste, making them feel like an ass.
Jordan Parker
You know damn well that is a leaf nigger behind a proxy
Juan Reyes
Lol go to the UK, cunt. In USA we have 1st amendment. There you can be fired and fined for fb post. Saying you don't like to eat chicken is hate speech. Saying you don't like days without bacon is antisemitic. Fuck you let us say we don't like kikes
Kayden Cox
All speech should be permitted, including "hate speech". They need to be allowed to voice their ideas, no matter how much you disagree with them. Otherwise they will just get more militant about their ideas, possibly even resorting to violence.
Groups such as the KKK, the Westboro Baptist Church, etc. are already extremely unpopular, and can just be ignored. You can peacefully rebel against these groups by not support their businesses, not interacting with them, or speaking out against their ideas.
But that's not what it's really about, is it scumbag. This is all about you claiming control over the language people use. This is just a big power grab. Makes you feel good, getting on those buses, tearing up those towns, destroying peoples' homes and businesses. The narrative of "another evil white man shoots another innocent black man who dindu nuffin" is getting OLD and BORING. Continue to sling the word "racism" around all over the place, and trying to make people apologize for being white. The American people are sick of your bullshit, and you are losing more and more power every single day.
Hudson Price
Bump
Dylan Adams
Malodorous idiot. You can ban all the words that offend your faggoty feelings. Hate will always exist. It is part of who we are as humans. Ban a word and another will replace it.Futility.
Jaxon Wilson
>speech >wrongthink
Daniel White
There's a lot more to fascism than just restricting speech. Otherwise fascism would have existed long before the 20th century.
Dominic Ortiz
Everyone should be allowed to voice their ideas, however expression of ideas should not be exempt from consequences. If you say hateful things about a group, people (including those who work for the state) should be free to tell others that you are a hateful person. That's the thing with free speech - once you put it out there, anyone can warn others about you. And furthermore, with true freedom of speech, it is equally possible to spread false claims about you. So, suppose you express the idea that we should reduce the number of Muslims entering the country. And with free speech, that is perfectly acceptable. But you'd also have to accept your opponents spreading the claim that you are a literal Nazi, even though such a claim is false.
Nathaniel Long
>that pic
EVERYTHING IS A MICROAGGRESSION AGH
FUCKING WHITE PEOPLE MADE ME STUB MY TOE AND SPILL MY COFFEE
Christian Brown
>legitimate yes there is
the first amendment
you know the thing you kikes use for piss christ
you love it long time when you use it for anti-white purposes