Amitai Etzioni on Free Speech

[Pilsenaaa]

you loose your freedom of speech and you loose your liberty and that will be the end of America

[Pizuzuzimmer]

@Pilsenaaa

You might want to learn English as a first step to talking about what will or will not lead to the end of America.

[StevenThePhilosopher]

I think all the previous posts were entirely ignorant of what Communitarism actually means. Go look up a definition, stupids. And liberty, when excessive, can be a danger to society. And therefore, people who over-emphasize the importance of liberty are actually the ignorant, moronic ones, because it takes a true idiot to completely ignore the effects that their own liberties can have on the interaction between themselves and others. Dumb right-wing, brainwashed American fuckheads.

[jays2474]

This guy is a moron.Its america.You can say anything because of freedom of speech,but there are consequence for your actions fucking idiot.Shout fire in a movie theater.I cant stand idiots like this guy.

[Pizuzuzimmer]

@jays2474

I can't stand people who don't know what an apostrophe is.

[crazyforcanada]

First, you have to ask, Are you ABLE to DEFINE what constitutes "hate rhetoric"? Or is your idea of "hate" today a future truth waiting to be exposed by DISSENTERS? Can you risk silencing anyone? Is it not better to promote education and the right of REBUTTAL with facts, in order to encourage DEBATE?

[om4444]

Etzioni has hate in his eyes when he speaks about the internet.....control freaks hate freedom.

[sprsmoke]

What does free speech have to do with Oklahoma City or abortion clinics? Now if you want to use the Talmudic hatred for gentiles connected to the genocide in Gaza or the old Soviet Union you have a more logical connection. What is acceptable speech? The Jews are God's chosen people-acceptable. The Palestinians are human beings-unacceptable.

[rightwinglefty1]

Figures that communitarian bastard is a sociologist. Fake science. There's nothing that collectivist bullshit pseudoscience can't explain that social psychology cannot. Psychology is a real science - a study of the individual, not of the false constructs that are groups.

[Pizuzuzimmer]

@rightwinglefty1

What a brilliant scholarly critique.

[phillipzernst]

it's all fun and games until someone criticizes israel and it's puppets. the biggest hatemongers are the ones controlling the game, like etzioni.

[Kingery4President]

There is a difference between "free speech" and disorderly conduct.

Though People have the right to speak freely, they do not have the right to be heard. If I do not want to hear what you have to say, you have no right to force me to hear hear you. Disorderly conduct comes into play another tries to force one to hear that which they do not wish.

When government set the rules for acceptability, it is censorship. When Society generally set the rules, there is no censorship.

[rumpelstillskin65]

vote nader