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Hate Speech on College Campuses

            Hate speech on campuses should be acceptable as long as students can exercise their right to participate fully in campus life without being discriminated against.
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             Hate speech as a freedom of speech and peaceful assembly is in fact protected by the First Amendment. However, there is a balance with this freedom, if we are to silence these groups or individuals, then we are to be silenced as well. Do we want to be silenced and create the very problem the constitution is here to protect? Go back to pre-constitution days where you could be reprimanded or killed for speaking or demonstrating your beliefs. .
             To keep the freedom of speech can benefit students in that they can learn through open debate and study and can be enlightened. For example, there could be a group of people who would not like some Indian cultures because they can come to America and receive government loans and grants to purchase businesses and are tax-exempt. If this opinion was expressed then there is the chance to debate this opinion with your own freedom of speech. And in the debate valuable information could educate the opposing in facts and ideas they may have not known. There is a chance that the education could change their opinion.
             Many universities have enforced hate speech codes that allow the freedom of speech but protect the student's rights to participate fully in campus life without being discriminated against. Let's define a students right to participate fully in campus life without being discriminated against. This is where the line is drawn at University's in America today. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1942 a case called Chaplinsky v. New Hapshire, that intimidating speech directed at a specific individual in a face-to-face confrontation amounts to, fighting words", can be punished if their words inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of peace (ACLU). An example, if a white student stops a black person and utters a racial slur this could obviously have the potential to be considered fighting words or actually start a fight and the white student would be punished for racial harassment.


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1. The Rise Of Hate Speech On Campuses

Among the settings of these expressions of intolerance are college and university campuses, where bias incidents have been occurring more since the mid 1980's. ... But given the lack of racial and social diversity among students, faculty and administrators on most campuses; many universities, under pressure to respond to the concerns of those who are the objects of hate have adopted codes or policies prohibiting speech that offends any group based on race gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. ... Speech codes are not the way to go on campuses, where all views are entitled to ...

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2. regulating hate speech on camp

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3. Free Speech

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4. Hate Speech

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5. Hate Vs Speech Code

Hate Speech Code vs. ... Limiting derogatory speech reduces the risk of a hostile environment on a college campus. That is why I believe that a hate speech code would be a good idea at SMU. So why should a hate speech code be enforced? ... Advocating and allow hate speech goes against the fact that all men are created equal. ...

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6. Regulation speech on campus

Regulating Speech On Campus The First Amendment provides protection for all kinds of speech. ... When it comes to college campuses, it is necessary to bring such topics into discussion and educating students in tolerance and history. ... They say that the First Amendment was meant to provoke enlightening discussion whereas hate speech only terminates it. ... When hate speech is brought up, people either praise it, or criticize and condemn it. ... If colleges did adopt speech codes, they could be abused. ...

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7. Freedom of Speech

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8. Free Speech On Campus

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9. Should Speech Codes Be Allowed On College Campuses?

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