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Comments on: Hate speech http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/09/hate-speech/ As fair-minded and non-partisan as Torquemada. Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:16:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Stephen Newton http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/09/hate-speech/#comment-709 Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:11:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=460#comment-709 You’ve got your priorities all wrong. Or rather you’ve failed to set them. There are lots of desiriable rights, like free speech and the right to not to live in fear of violence. These rights are in conflict here, but that’s only a problem if you put them all on a par with each other.

So it’s simple really. Swaggart’s right to free speech is trumped by his would-be victims right not to live in fear of violence.

]]> By: Harry Hutton http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/09/hate-speech/#comment-708 Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:40:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=460#comment-708 Did you ever see that story in The Onion about the ACLU defending the right of neo-Nazis to burn down the ACLU?

Laugh? I thought my trousers would never dry.

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