Reader says Yard Signs are Hate Speech ?
James, I think people here are really more eager just to ban “hate lawn-signs”.
Ridgewood blog asks what qualifies as “Hate Lawn Signs” lol
Any lawn sign that criticizes a regionally significant inherently beneficial use of otherwise tax-revenue-generating chunk of real estate is a “hate lawn sign”.
your views are repulsive, and I am ashamed of you for propagating them. There are no “sensible restrictions on free speech,” and whoever thinks that stifling speech eliminates hatred, anger, and violence, is plainly wrong. The answer to hate speech is more speech, not less.
By the way, anyone who wishes to cling to “fire in a crowded theater,” just remember that the ruling was used to imprison Yiddish-speaking pacifists for handing out fliers to protest World War I. Is that “sensible,” #16?
brought to you courtesy of one of our nation’s finest institutions of higher learning (much more where that came from):
https://thedartmouth.com/2014/11/17/opinion/traynor-fixing-free-speech
