The free speech about white supremacy may cause conflicts. The Charlottesville attack is an example to show the bed consequence of free speech. As it mentioned in this article, after this attack, many universities started to worry about such violence on campus and take some measures to avoid such attack happened on their campuses. Some of the measures may be even against the First Amendment. Personally, I think free speech should not be banned on campus but need to be examined.
Freedom of speech, which is the civil right of every American citizen, is guaranteed by the First Amendment. People have the right to express themselves. Also, freedom of expression can generate more ideas and make the contribution to the improvement of the society.
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However, some people with extreme ideas, such as white nationalists, racists and even terrorists, may use free speech to propagandize their extreme ideas. For example, the white nationalists may try their best to make their audience believe that white people are better than others via free speech. It is known to us that every person in the world is equal no matter you are white or not. Some of the audience may believe them and have such extreme ideas, which will threat the safety of the society. Admittedly, these people have the right to have these extreme ideas and express their views, but they should not do that on campus. College students are so young that they are easy to be influenced. Therefore, there should be some limitations on free speech on campus, and the senate of the university should be in charge of this thing. Most of free speech should be encouraged on campus. When the topics of free speech are related to the sensitive topics, such as racial discrimination and terrorism, the speakers should consciously submit the outline of the speech content to the senate of the university. The senate discusses and determine if the content is extreme or not and if the speaker can speak on campus or not. The administration of the college should do spot check on the speeches
According to Roger Rosenblatt “since free is the way people's minds were made to be”, freedom of speech is important to speak one's mind in a way that expresses his/her opinion even if this opinion does not seem to convince others. In my opinion, without freedom of speech, the United States would have failed to be such a powerful country as it is today.
"Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus” by Derek Bok, published in Boston Globe in 1991, is an essay about what we should do when we are faced with expressions that are offensive to some people. The author discusses that although the First Amendment may protect our speech, but that does not mean it protects our speech if we use it immorally and inappropriately. The author claims that when people do things such as hanging the Confederate flag, “they would upset many fellow students and ignore the decent regard for the feelings of others” (70). The author discusses how this issue has approached Supreme Court and how the Supreme Court backs up the First Amendment and if it offends any groups, it does not affect the fact that everyone has his or her own freedom of speech. The author discusses how censorship may not be the way to go, because it might bring unwanted attention that would only make more devastating situations. The author believes the best solutions to these kind of situations would be to
1. The measure of a great society is the ability of its citizens to tolerate the viewpoints of those with whom they disagree. As Voltaire once said, “I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” (Columbia). This right to express one's opinion can be characterized as “freedom of speech.” The concept of “freedom of speech” is a Constitutional right in the United States, guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Constitution:
Hall, K. (2002, September 13). Free speech on public college campuses overview. Retrieved from http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/free-speech-on-public-college-campuses
How much we valuse the right of free speech is out to its severest test when the speaker is someone we disagree with most. Speech that deeply offends our morality or is hostile to our way of life promises the same constitutional protection as other speech because the right of free speech is indivisible: When one of us is denied this right, all of us are denied. Where racist, sexist and homphobic speech is concerned, I believe that more speech - not less - is the best revenge. This is particualrly true at universities, whose mission is to facilitate learning through open debate and study, and to enlighten. Speech codes are not the way to go on campuses, where all views are entitled to be heard, explored, supported or refuted. Besides, when hate is out in the open, people can see the problem. They can organize effectively to encounter bad attitudes, possibly to change them, and imitate togetherness against the forces of intolerance.
This occurs even when the regulations arent enforced souly because they fear being punished for what they may say. As shown in Silverglate and Lukianoffs essay, some campuses go to great extents when giving students permission to give free speeches. They claim that “as long as the policy exists, the threat of enfocement remains real and will inevitably influence some peoples speech” (636). This is a valid argument because they then proceed by saying that The First Amendment calls it a clinging effect. Another effect of these regulations would be that colleges are teaching their students that their opinions and beliefs should not be shared when they are even slightly controversial. Wasserman argues that word choice is an “essential component of free-speech protection”(640) because they allow one to express him or herself
In the United States, free speech is protected by the First Amendment in which it states, “Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion … or abridging the freedom of speech.” Now, nearly 250 years into the future, the exact thing that the Founding Fathers were afraid of is starting to happen. Today, our freedom of speech is being threatened through different forces, such as the tyranny of the majority, the protection of the minority, and the stability of the society. Now, colleges and universities in the United States today are also trying to institute a code upon its students that would bar them from exercising their right to speak freely in the name of protecting minorities from getting bullied. This brings us into
College campuses have always been the sites where students can express their opinions without fear. There have been many debates about the merits of allowing free speech on campus. Some students and faculties support allowing free speech on campus, while others believe that colleges should restrict free speech to make the college’s environment safer for every student. Free speeches are endangered on college campuses because of trigger warning, increasing policing of free speech, and the hypersensitivity of college students.
The title is significant because the Iron Trial is something that defines the main character’s life in this book. Call has been dreading it since before he could remember, his father says that if he passes he will surely die. For the Trail is a test as to whether you have magical capabilities. Call’s mother died because of the school and his father tells him he will join her if he passes. So he takes the trial and is the first person ever to get negative points. However, his horrendous score attracts the attention of Master Rufus who decided to let him into the school. He is forced to go to the school that will surely kill him. Most of the book focuses on the Iron Trial and its aftermath. If I were to rename it, I would call it Chaos Devors.
Freedom of expression is an inalienable human right and the foundation for self-government. Freedom of expression defines the freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly, association, and the corollary right to receive information. Human rights and intellectual independence; the two are inseparably linked. Freedom of opinion and determining what you want to read is not
One cannot mention free speech without the argument of hate speech being brought up. Hate speech is words that are used to deliberately offends and threatens a certain group of people, whether it be based off of religion, sexual orientation, race, etc. In the United States it is relatively hard to be criminalized for hate speech, however, harmful actions that are carried out usually tied to what has been previously said will get someone incarcerated, not the speech itself. A famous case was Wisconsin V. Mitchell. Mitchell a young black man saw the movie Mississippi burning with friends. After watching the movie they saw a young white boy in which Mitchell was recorded saying “There goes a white boy; go get him”. The young white boy was injured and in the case Mitchell was charged with assault and battery with increased punishment due to the beating being on a child, but he was not charged with hateful, threatening speech which you can be charged for in many European countries. Even flying swastika flags on your lawn is legal but planting it on a neighbors lawn will land you with vandalism, not hate speech. This privilege, unfortunately, can easily be used to target and oppress other groups and it is up to society to ultimately deem whether or not speech has crossed the line or an individual realizing the potential consequences for his or her
One instance of free speech controversy was when a fraternity member of the University Of Maryland had an email leaked of which he said very derogatory and racist remarks about women and shaming them on their appearance. When this email was leaked it created a widespread of controversy and anger among the country. The difficult part in this was that by popular opinion many would want to expel the student who wrote that email but lawyers suggest that by doing so would violate the student 's constitutional rights to freedom of expression. The problem with labeling this kind of behavior as hate speech and trying to suppress vulgar language is no matter how vile the language is it is protected under the first amendment of the constitution. Universities have come together in trying to diffuse this kind of behavior by adding codes of conduct that prohibit certain forms of speech from being permitted on campus. These initiatives have been challenged by civil liberty groups who feel that by prohibiting certain forms of speech the universities are restricting students on their first amendment rights and has to be cautious on what they say as one minor joke could be taken the wrong
First of all, what does Freedom of Speech mean to people? According to some, it is the
Freedom of speech is the right given to every individual. Everyone has been given the right to speak their mind and share their opinions. This right is always important but in higher learning, it is essential. Without freedom of speech the whole idea of higher education would just be a contradiction. When an institute of higher education tries to resist this right the whole purpose of the institute becomes contradicted. One needs their right to freely speak their mind for higher education to be a successful venture. The right to free speech is essential in higher education because it gives the individual the chance to fearlessly be who they are, the mind substance to develop and, the opportunity to bring better ideas about.
Freedom of speech is academic freedom when it comes to allowing teachers and professors to say what they will in the classroom.