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    According to The First Amendment of The U.S Constitution, it allows citizens to have freedom of speech, press, religion and assembly & petition. The First Amendment protects speech no matter how offensive its content. The Supreme Court has said that there is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment. For example, if a white student confronts a black student on campus and starts shouting racial slurs in a one-on-one confrontation, that student may be subject to discipline. Instead, the First

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    In order to reduce the astonishing number of hate crimes in the United States, the Federal Government should restrict hate speech, and the expressions of hateful ideas, in all its forms, in all places, both public and private. However, it is imperative that hate speech be defined first. Contrary to some opinions, it is possible to accurately define hate speech, because hate speech does not actually have many elusive forms. Hate speech includes fighting words as defined in Chaplinsky vs. New Hampshire

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    Hate speech is taking over our lives we get separated into groups defining what we believe in. Imagine yourself in a crowd of people fighting for your rights but in never ends. America should limit hate speech because hate speeches caused divisions in our cultures, Hate speech conducted into riots and violence it also relates to fights and citizens getting in deep trouble on social media. Hate speech leads to division in our cultures in the way people see other people for example when Donald Trump

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    with explicit language. Such opinions often times involve incitement and defamation targeted against the opposing party. However, because the First Amendment protects the freedom of speech, the U.S. Government has not strictly reprimanded the misuse of the amendment. Some citizens view hate speech as a form of speech that attacks and offends an individual or group based on their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or ethnic origin while others see it as a part of the First Amendment,

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    In class on October 25 we had a debate on wether or not hate speech should be protected. Each side had valid arguments, but at the end of the debate I felt as if discussing the topic only made people disagree with each other more. I was on the side that said it should not be protected. We all agreed that there is no reason to be so hurtful to get a point across.  While It tells the government when people disagree with something, hate speech should not be protected because It could go as far as threatening

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    Jodie Tatem 9/30/2014 English 101 Hate Speech Hate speech has increasingly gotten worse over the past few years. What is Hate Speech? Hate Speech is speech that offends, threatens, or insults groups, based on race, color, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. Hate Speech has always existed in History but became and ongrowing problem when the internet was first introduced. Because the First Amendment states that everyone has the freedom of speech, it is assumed that throwing out racial slurs

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    right to say whatever we want or at some point does this become hate speech? This is the question a lot of people have started asking in the last couple of years. How do we know free speech has stopped and hate speech has began. According to americanbar.org hate speech is any speech that offends, threatens, or insults groups, based on race, color, religion, nation origin, sexual orientation, disability, or other traits. Should hate speech be banned at college campuses or not? According to nahmodlaw

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    Should Hate Be Protected? Hate speech is one of the most controversial topics discussed in modern society. Some groups believe that it should continue to be protected by free speech laws. However, as hate speech has caused and continues to cause harm in communities around the world, precautions should be taken against it in order to ensure that it does not escalate into physical violence. Hate speech should not be protected under free speech laws because of the physical, societal, and psychological

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    ACLU’s “Hate Speech on Campus” Hate speech can be extremely offensive; however, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution defends speech regardless of how it is contextualised this includes hate speech. Thus, when speech codes are imposed on college and universitycampuses, ACLU- American Civil Liberty Union- believes that they should be relieved of such censorship. ACLU starts building up its credibilityby stating facts, statistics and the rise in verbal offence and violent speech in the

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    Hate Speech on College Campuses Discrimination is prevalent within institutions of higher education and is often in the form of ‘Hate Speech’. According to the American Bar Association, hate speech is speech intended to “offend, threaten, or insult groups, based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or other traits” (1). University students across the nation demand that hate speech be punishable by law and permanently banned on campus. However, implementing anti-hate

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