Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Leftists can racially abuse anyone they like
A Left-leaning paper defending a Leftist eminence is very quick to make the case for free speech -- even admitting that "hate speech" is free speech. Not a usual Leftist position
Assume for the sake of argument that Alec Baldwin did indeed hurl racial epithets at a New York Post photographer. You still have to wonder why he is under investigation by the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force. He committed no crime. If the allegations under investigation are true, Baldwin is merely guilty of boorishly exercising his constitutional rights. Hate speech is constitutionally protected, as the Supreme Court recently confirmed in Snyder v Phelps.
Still, an investigation of protected speech is not a harmless PR exercise. Even if it has no appreciable chilling effect, it helps promote disrespect for speech rights and the nonsensical belief that hate speech isn't free speech -- that the First Amendment should only protect speech we like, or, at least, don't seriously dislike. Freedom of speech means the freedom to say what the law doesn't want people to hear, however hateful the speech may seem.
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So the left doesn't like being investigated under their own hate speech standards? What a shocker.
Even though we all know Alec Baldwin is an insufferable, ultra-leftist asshole, and in spite of the fact that he is one of those from the Left who would squelch speech he doesn't like, this is still about free speech.
Given that NYC is totally controlled by the dark forces of the far-Left, i'm rather surprised that they would investigate one of their own. On the other hand, might the fact that the "offended" photog was a (black) retired member of the NYPD have anything to do with it? Kinda like a battle of the protected classes? Hmm...
They have to at least appear to care. Appearence is.more important than reality to liberals.
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