First Amendment woes
Sep 19, 2017 15:50:09 #
The millennials have officially been dumbed down...
Another way to tell you’re getting old: you can remember when college campuses were specifically designed to encourage free speech and the free exchange of ideas. In a shocking new survey of 1500 US undergraduates by a Brookings Institution senior fellow, fully half of the students (including 62 percent of Democrats) think it’s perfectly acceptable to shout down “controversial” speakers so they can’t be heard. Worse, one-fifth said it’s acceptable to use physical violence to silence a speaker who makes “offensive and hurtful statements.” Not surprisingly, many are unclear on what the First Amendment even says. Six in 10 think that it requires a speaker of an opposing view to counter any controversial speaker on campus. And 4 in 10 think it doesn’t protect “h**e speech.” I wonder how many out of 10 think that “h**e speech” means any speech they h**e?
Say, here's a crazy idea for college students. Take a break from shouting and swinging bike locks and read the First Amendment. It's only 45 words, so it shouldn't take most of you that long.
Mike Huckabee
Another way to tell you’re getting old: you can remember when college campuses were specifically designed to encourage free speech and the free exchange of ideas. In a shocking new survey of 1500 US undergraduates by a Brookings Institution senior fellow, fully half of the students (including 62 percent of Democrats) think it’s perfectly acceptable to shout down “controversial” speakers so they can’t be heard. Worse, one-fifth said it’s acceptable to use physical violence to silence a speaker who makes “offensive and hurtful statements.” Not surprisingly, many are unclear on what the First Amendment even says. Six in 10 think that it requires a speaker of an opposing view to counter any controversial speaker on campus. And 4 in 10 think it doesn’t protect “h**e speech.” I wonder how many out of 10 think that “h**e speech” means any speech they h**e?
Say, here's a crazy idea for college students. Take a break from shouting and swinging bike locks and read the First Amendment. It's only 45 words, so it shouldn't take most of you that long.
Mike Huckabee
Sep 19, 2017 16:12:52 #
mwdegutis wrote:
The millennials have officially been dumbed down..... (show quote)
...and yet that's exactly what his lying i***t of a daughter does every day to the press. Do you know who Sarah Huckabee Sanders is?
Sep 19, 2017 16:16:53 #
Dummy Boy wrote:
...and yet that's exactly what his lying i***t of a daughter does every day to the press. Do you know who Sarah Huckabee Sanders is?
Sure do. And like her father, she tells it like it is.
Sep 19, 2017 16:39:47 #
mwdegutis wrote:
Sure do. And like her father, she tells it like it is.
NO she doesn't, they're both d*****t liars....kooks at best.
Sep 19, 2017 16:50:21 #
Dummy Boy wrote:
NO she doesn't, they're both d*****t liars....kooks at best.
No you are the lying kook.go wrap your self in your tin foil hat and get on a low fir, just maybe you can cook up some sense.
Sep 20, 2017 07:38:48 #
vernon wrote:
No you are the lying kook.go wrap your self in your tin foil hat and get on a low fir, just maybe you can cook up some sense.
...are you're the town i***t...go back to your begging corner.
Sep 20, 2017 10:47:29 #
mwdegutis wrote:
The millennials have officially been dumbed down..... (show quote)
I have to agree with you. It's an attitude that I can no longer understand...
Sep 20, 2017 11:03:57 #
PeterS wrote:
I have to agree with you. It's an attitude that I can no longer understand...
You're so proud of yourself that your ilk had a big hand in it aren't you?
Sep 20, 2017 13:09:36 #
mwdegutis wrote:
The millennials have officially been dumbed down..... (show quote)
I find it interesting that right wing nutters who spent much of the past few decades railing against the content of books, movies and magazines and demanding censorship of literature and artwork are now staunch first amendment advocates when it comes to h**e mongers like Colter or Milo Yiannopoulos. Theses cranks would be the first to line up with torches and pitchforks if their local museum had a show of Robert Maplethorps photographs or Andres Serranos "Piss Christ". Hypocrites to the core.
Sep 20, 2017 13:39:38 #
Kevyn wrote:
I find it interesting that right wing nutters who ... (show quote)
Funny...I don't remember anyone lining up with torches and pitchforks museums had a show of Robert Maplethorps photographs or Andres Serranos "Piss Christ".
What an ASSHOLE!
Sep 20, 2017 16:01:10 #
Sep 20, 2017 16:03:31 #
Sep 20, 2017 18:02:58 #
Kevyn wrote:
I find it interesting that right wing nutters who ... (show quote)
Ok kevyn, I'll bite. Exactly what art and literature did we demand censorship on?
Sep 20, 2017 18:05:12 #
dangerkitten061 wrote:
Ok kevyn, I'll bite. Exactly what art and literature did we demand censorship on?
And by the way, "piss christ" is not art it is trash!!!!!
Sep 21, 2017 08:16:01 #
dangerkitten061 wrote:
Ok kevyn, I'll bite. Exactly what art and literature did we demand censorship on?
Tennessee's Butler Act is a good place to start, it censors science with criminal penalties. Incidentally "piss Christ" regardless of your opinion is without question art. Below are images of the work of right wing vandals who attacked the piece in a museum in 2011
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