Saturday, August 26, 2017

UN CERD Calls On U.S. To Violate First Amendment

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CERD also called on the Government to ensure that the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly are not exercised with the aim of destroying or denying the rights and freedoms of others, and also asked it to provide the necessary guarantees so that such rights are not misused to promote racist hate speech and racist crimes.
   This is a different link than I had before, but it seems better.
   I'm starting to see why conservatives hate the U.N. It does say a lot of crazy, creepy stuff. Of course it's easy to see where they're coming from here, even if what they're advocating is inconsistent with First Amendment protections... I don't consider their view inexplicable...but I do consider it disastrously wrong. And I do have to wonder why they're saying it when they have to know that it's inconsistent with Constitutional protections.
   Contrary to the new slogan in certain political sectors, some free speech is, indeed, "hate speech."
   Some people just aren't cut out for this America thing, I guess.
   The Klan and their ilk are free to talk away. If they start directly inciting violence, that's a different thing entirely.

2 Comments:

Blogger Lorenzo said...

Not sure the burning of the Franklin BBQ is the link you meant.

1:47 AM  
Blogger Winston Smith said...

Maybe the UN is after our BBQ, too...

Thanks, will fix.

7:03 AM  

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