Freedom of Speech and Hate Speech

Student 's name : Michelle Warner

Professor 's name : Hunter

Class name English 102

Date assignment is due : September 24 , 2007

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Freedom of Speech

Thesis statement : Certain limits should be applied to the constitutional right of `Freedom of speech ' as it encourages ethnic speech (ethnically and racially discriminating talk

A restriction on free speech is very essential on college campuses Political correctness is found to be a mere attempt to be sure that everybody on campus feels welcome and is able to learn as per

. Certain limits should be applied to the constitutional right of `Freedom of speech ' as it encourages ethnic speech (ethnically and racially discriminating talk ) in educational institutions . Racially offensive speech in US institutions has led to several problems . Ethnic speech is widely evident in educational institutions . Racial jokes and ethnic speech are also prevalent in work places . Ethnic speech creates inferiority complex in lower classes . It is also against the policies of affirmative action (Arthur , 2004 . The reason for the unacceptability of racially offensive talk is that the intentions behind them are always bad . They do exploit HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Ethnic_stereotype " \o "Ethnic stereotype racial stereotypes and the talk often becomes offensive . Limits on freedom of speech are justified as there is a big relation between freedom of speech and racial speech . It is high time that we eliminate racially offensive talk from our society . For that the most important step is a restriction on the freedom of speech . The absence of limit on freedom of speech encourages racially offensive talk in college campuses in US (Arthur , 2004 . Racially offensive humor is increasingly unacceptable and is based on the concept that certain ethnic groups are superior to others . Ethnically superior groups are of the belied that they do have very right to make fun at other inferior groups . The powerful faction has always assumed that they are superior to others in its race and culture . These ethnic groups will try to put down other inferior groups in to strengthen their own group (Arthur , 2004 The superior group will thus feel no guilt in hurting the feelings of the inferior group . Ethnic and racial speech is generated out of this superior feeling and undermines the unity and cooperation prevailing in the society (Arthur , 2004 . Had there been a limit on the freedom of speech , these kinds of racially offensive speech would have disappeared from the educational institutions in US . Even though freedom of speech is quite important as far as American society , a restriction on it is the real need of the hour . Uncontrolled speech may result in further segregation and racial classification . Offensive speech , of any form should be discouraged so that it would not further create problems in the already segregated society . The panacea for all this is nothing but a limit on the freedom of speech (Arthur , 2004

Ethnic jokes are much prevalent in college campuses . Ethnic jokes exploit HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Ethnic_stereotype...