Duly Noted Tidbits:
"[First Amendment Center director, Kenneth Paulson, said that "While Americans respect the First Amendment as an ideal, increasingly they're ambivalent when it protects offensive ideas or troubling speech or art or music." The results for their poll taken in 2000 show:
| Two thirds of American adults favor the banning of hate speech. This troubles many civil rights supporters. As Ken Paulson said: "The problem with that is it's so easy to characterize what someone else says that offends you as 'hate speech.' "]" |
So sorry to offend you. Not. It's a free country, bitch. SOURCES: |
Direct Quotation: http://www.usconstitution.net. 16. Jan. 2011.
Direct Quotation: Robinson, B.A. http://www.religioustolerance.org. 16. Jan. 2011.
