Articles on Hate Speech Court Cases

This first article, about Hate Speech, summarizes a few different court cases in which the defendant was charged for Hate Speech. Because the first amendment protects all speech, most of the defendants got away with their words, but not all. There are cases in which the defendant produced true threats towards another, whether at the president or someone of another race. In these cases the defendant were charged, because the first amendment does not protect acts of violence I was not surprised by the outcomes of these court cases because they all made sense.

Those who were explicitly threatening others of course were convicted, and those who are just speaking their minds — whether they are doing so appropriately or not — got away with it. I think that as long as nobody is threatened or is hurt in any way that people should have the freedom to say what they want.

But in cases where they are protesting just to anger others, and in conclusion start fights, the protesters should be charged.

The second article is about the Nazi march in Skokiei The Nazi organization chose Skokie to march in first of all because it had the highest percentage of Holocaust survivors in the US and also because they were the only ones who replied to their message. The Nazis told the Skokie government their plans, and as an attempt to persuade them otherwise tried to charge them $350,000, of course, did not stop them, but rather made them protest against the charge.

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Long story short, the Nazis were granted their march, but then the ruling changed just days before and they were stopped by local police.

They then decided to march on July 4‘”, and the Supreme Court could not rule against it, At first the Nazi organization appeared to want a peaceful protest, but full of hate speech towards Jews, However, as the article continued the Nazis intention sounded more and more like they wanted to fight the Jews in Skokie. If their plan was to peacefully protest, and have the Jews of Skokie peacefully protest against them, then there would have been no problem with allowing the Nazis to march. However, it appeared the Nazis were going to use fighting words to provoke the Jews, and vice versa. Therefore the Nazis should not have been allowed to march, simply because they were trying to start a wart