{"id":332889,"date":"2017-10-31T08:46:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T07:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/free-speech-vs-hate-speech\/"},"modified":"2017-10-31T08:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T07:46:30","slug":"free-speech-vs-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/free-speech-vs-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Speech vs. Hate Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I was recently invited to participate in a panel discussion over the subject of \u201cfree speech.\u201d\u00a0 Among the subtopics on the agenda are those of the Confederate monument controversy and the relationship between free speech and \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My schedule forced me to decline the invitation.\u00a0 However, even had this not been the case, I probably would\u2019ve declined at any rate.\u00a0 The description of the discussion, you see, makes it clear that its organizers assume, first of all, that the distinction between \u201cfree speech\u201d and \u201chate speech\u201d is a meaningful one.\u00a0 In doing so, they presuppose as well the meaningfulness of the concept of \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those who make these assumptions beg the question.\u00a0 These presuppositions themselves should be subject to discussion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Is<\/em> there really such a thing as \u201chate speech\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>If so, is there a non-arbitrary or effectively objective set of criteria for establishing it?<\/p>\n<p>What is <em>hate<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Is so-called \u201chate speech\u201d of a different species than free speech?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/specials-gold\/?utm_source=LRC_Text_Ad&amp;utm_campaign=gold_specials\"><em><strong>Buy Gold at Discounted Prices<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If \u201chate speech\u201d is not of a different species than free speech, and if the latter is something to be valued and protected, then why even bother mentioning \u201chate speech?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If \u201chate speech\u201d <em>is <\/em>a different species than free speech, then in what does this distinction between the two consist?<\/p>\n<p>Is the distinction between free speech and \u201chate speech\u201d either morally or legally relevant?<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the questions that any discussion over \u201chate speech\u201d must include.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is equally necessary that such a discussion also subject to interrogation the concept of <em>free <\/em>speech, for it is painfully obvious that there is much conflict and confusion over it, <em>especially<\/em> among the self-styled&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/10\/jack-kerwick\/free-speech-vs-hate-speech-what-is-hate-speech-what-is-free-speech\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently invited to participate in a panel discussion over the subject of \u201cfree speech.\u201d\u00a0 Among the subtopics on the agenda are those of the Confederate monument controversy and the relationship between free speech and \u201chate speech.\u201d My schedule forced me to decline the invitation.\u00a0 However, even had this not been the case, I [&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-332889","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\/332889","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=332889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}