Words of the Week: Ilya Shapiro
“Sometimes ‘speech’ isn’t speech. Sometimes it rises to the level of conduct that prevents others from being able to live their lives. Right now we need people to discern the difference.”
Source: Ilya Shapiro, “Where Free Speech Ends and Lawbreaking Begins” (The Free Press; note, at the post’s conclusion, an editorial reference to “another view”).
Yes. Doesn’t Germany have laws making hate speech illegal? We need something like that…not that it would be easy to do…
I just think a first start is recognizing when, as this author (and even the authors of the other article, recommended at the end) explain, “speech” goes beyond words.
Yes, good point….Mr. Trump as a prime example.