Is Hate Speech A Free Speech? English Discussion Help

2.Post a paragraph response to one of the other postings (I will give you the paragraph after you finish the first part )Make clear which comment you are responding to. You may agree, disagree, ask a question, or try to come up with a transition connecting two of the ideas in different postings.

1.Type a three-paragraph response. Summarize the first two quotes that present somewhat opposing views on the issue of restricting hate speech, and give your opinion about whether you agree or disagree with the situation presented in the third quote. If you’re confused about what the quotes mean, go back and read the surrounding context in our reading packet(see attachment), “Is Hate Speech Free Speech?” The quotes are all from this packet, so you should be able to find them by looking at the page number. Also, feel free to ask questions of your classmates or me if you’re confused about the meaning of something, especially since some of the language can be legalistic and difficult.

Quote 1•Blacks and other people of color are skeptical about the argument that even the most injurious speech must remain unregulated because. . .the best ones will rise to the top and gain acceptance. Our experience tells us quite the opposite. We have seen too many demagogues elected by appealing to America’s racism” (Lawrence 377).

Quote 2•A student at NYU stated that “we ought to examine why students, so anxious to wield the Fourteenth Amendment, give short shrift to the First. Yes, Virginia, there are racist assholes. And you know what, the Constitution protects them too” (381). Hentoff adds, “Not when they engaged in violence or vandalism. But when they speak or write. . . “ (Hentoff 381).

Example 3•Chancellor Sheila Kaplan of the University of Wisconsin Parkside ordered “her campus to be scoured of ‘some anonymously placed white-supremacist hate literature’” (Hentoff 379).