(Video Above) Should offensive speech be banned? Where should we, as a society, draw the line where permitted speech is on one side, and forbidden speech is on the other? Should we even have that line? And should free speech be limited by things like trigger warnings and punishments for microaggressions? Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, answers these questions and more.
Freedom From Speech
(Video Below) Intellectual and emotional comfort cannot be a justification for restricting freedom. Whoever gets to define “hate speech” and decide which speech is “extreme” or “hateful” has more rights than you. German Chancellor Angela Merkel vs. Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, on the idea of banning offensive speech.
(Video Below) Joy Behar thinks people can be charged with “hate speech.” Should offensive speech be punishable by law? Where should we, as a society, draw the line where permitted speech is on one side, and forbidden speech is on the other? Should we even have that line? And should free speech be limited by things like trigger warnings and penalties for microaggressions? Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, answers these questions and more.
“If Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
~ George Orwell
