{"id":306015,"date":"2017-04-30T20:02:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T19:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hate-speech-as-free-speech-how-does-that-work-exactly\/"},"modified":"2017-04-30T20:02:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T19:02:59","slug":"hate-speech-as-free-speech-how-does-that-work-exactly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hate-speech-as-free-speech-how-does-that-work-exactly\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Speech as Free Speech: How Does That Work, Exactly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Free speech is bullshit, at least in the way it is understood by most pundits in the United States.\u00a0 From the deposed Bill O\u2019Reilly to the declawed Bernie Sanders; from the campaign trail to the halls of UC Berkeley, the misinterpretation of free speech in the USA remains an ongoing hot button topic.<\/p>\n<p>Right wing bigots full of hate convince witless College Republicans to pay fascist speakers to speak at the college of their choice.\u00a0 Of course, the right wing bigots know that any speaking engagement featuring their hate-filled tirades will provoke a backlash against that engagement.\u00a0 Faculty and students will call for the cancellation of the speech and, when the speech is cancelled, the wannabe fascist will whine about the loss of their right to speak.<\/p>\n<p>This moment is when the liberals weigh in.\u00a0 The sanctity of the right to free speech will be pulled from the trashbin where it was thrown decades ago by the Justice Department; liberals and right-wingers alike will wave their limp and meaningless flag of freedom in the face of those who oppose Hitler\u2019s acolytes speaking on their campus. The liberals base their opposition to the protesters on a pretense that civil discourse is possible with people who champion the denial of human rights to most of humanity (if not their actual existence.)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not like the fascist wannabes don\u2019t have plenty of places to spread their swill.\u00a0 Their bank accounts indicate that they have an audience.\u00a0 Nor are they particularly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/04\/28\/hate-speech-as-free-speech-how-does-that-work-exactly\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free speech is bullshit, at least in the way it is understood by most pundits in the United States.\u00a0 From the deposed Bill O\u2019Reilly to the declawed Bernie Sanders; from the campaign trail to the halls of UC Berkeley, the misinterpretation of free speech in the USA remains an ongoing hot button topic. Right wing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}