Hate Speech and the People who use it Hate speech; is this the type of speech that the First Amendment protects? Should this type of speech be defended? If this type of speech is censored on college campuses, have the students lost their right to the First Amendment? What kind of damage does hate speech cause physical and emotional? Who does hate speech affect? Is hate speech protected by the first amendment? According to Charles R. Lawrence III, it is not. “When racist speech takes the form of face-to-face insults, catcalls, or other assaultive speech aimed at an individual or small group of persons, it falls directly within the “fighting words” exception to First Amendment protection.”(Goshgarian 382)As I started to read Hate Speech on Campus, the first sentence is a quote from the First Amendment “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech.” The two words that are stressed from this quote is no law. Obviously the writers of the constitution were trying to protect the future generation from losing power to their freedom of speech. But, because of the vagrant misuse of speech that we have in the world today, has everyone looking for a way to censor it.Should this type of speech be defended? No I do not think that this type of speech should be defended, because hate speech allows ignorance of future generations it also ensures that peace will never be an option. People who hate other because of their race, religion, or gender will never understand what life is all about. They will pass on their hatred to their unknowledgeable children. Hate speech must be controlled. I do not mean that people shouldn’t express themselves but maybe they could do it where it will cause no harm to anyone.If this type of speech is censored on college campuses, have the students lost their rights of the First Amendment? According to Nat Hentoff, if we allow censorship on the coll...
