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Hate speech is bad and must be banned. A problem. This depends on who is defining hate, and what they intend to do about it. One man’s hate is another’s heritage, to paraphrase the old saying, and the First Amendment isn’t about speech one agrees with.<\/p>\n
Which brings us to the Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo’s latest edict on “symbols of intolerance and hate.”<\/p>\n
Poetrooper sends.<\/p>\n
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation this week that would ban the the sale of Confederate flags and other symbols of \u201cintolerance and hate\u201d on public property and limit the display of such symbols. As a long-standing free speech advocate, you must often defend speech that you find offensive. However, the First Amendment is not designed to protect popular speech. We do not need protection for speech that people support. The test of free speech is to support those with whom you disagree and speech that you oppose. This is one such case. In my view, the Cuomo legislation is a violation of the First Amendment.<\/p>\n
We have previously discussed the alarming rollback on free speech rights in the West, particularly in Europe. Indeed, Norway recently criminalized private speech at home deemed hateful or offensive. Indeed, this legislation follows the European view that has destroyed free speech on that continent.<\/p>\n
Cuomo wrote that \u201c[b]y limiting the display and sale of the confederate flag, Nazi swastika and other symbols of hatred from being displayed or sold on state property, including the state fairgrounds, this will help safeguard New Yorkers from the fear-installing effects of these abhorrent symbols.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” Voltaire may\/may not have said, but the point is clear. <\/p>\n
Read the entire article here: JONATHAN TURLEY<\/a>
\nThanks, Poe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"