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“Hate Speech” and the New Tyranny over the Mind

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May 29, 2020
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A powerful movement intent on outlawing “hate speech,” will destroy self-government.  Arthur Milikh writes:

America is the only Western nation that does not criminalize “hate speech.” Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and most nations of Europe already do so. The United Nations relentlessly pressures the remaining holdouts to follow suit: “As a matter of principle,” says the U.N. Secretary-General, “the United Nations must confront hate speech at every turn.”

Meanwhile in America, Members of Congress issue their support for speech restrictions, and Big Tech’s digital oligarchs, enjoying a disproportionate power over society, continue to impose speech restrictions in exchange for access to their platforms. So are America’s colleges and universities more and more governed by an aggressive chorus of students, faculty, and administrators who demand and impose speech codes. These fronts promises to grow in size, strength, and confidence in the coming years.

Leading restriction advocates want not only to banish “hate speech,” but also to criminalize it. In the words of Mari Matsuda, an influential professor at the University of Hawaii Law School, “[F]ormal criminal and administrative sanction—public as opposed to private prosecution—is also an appropriate response to racist speech.” The influential feminist academic Judith Butler of Berkeley University similarly thinks “that there are probably occasions when” individuals should “be prosecuted for their injurious speech.” That “hateful, racist, misogynist, homophobic speech should be vehemently countered seems incontrovertibly right.” 

Perhaps most surprising, legal precedents that would bring this revolution fully into existence in America are already embedded in two areas of our legal system: antidiscrimination and harassment laws, and Supreme Court rulings favoring sexual liberation that are based on a new view of “dignity.”

[Arthur Milikh, ““Hate Speech” and the New Tyranny over the Mind,” The Heritage Foundation, May 19]

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