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controversial, which draws a significant amount criticism toward them. Then they or someone defending them will cry freedom of speech, in a bid to defend it. And this is a bad thing for the culture of our public discourse. Now before anyone makes the mistake of misunderstanding this, I am not attacking freedom of speech, I am criticizing people who draw up claims of free speech, where it is irrelevant to the matters at hand, and use such claims as a way of trying to deflect criticism. Because those

They came, they saw, and the conquered (some what). Last weekend, February 17th, the Westminster College Speech and debate team braved the cold wind and snow and traveled to Bloomsburg University to compete in the State championship tournament for Forensics. Six participants, Emily Gellatly, Matthew Causer, Christian Na, Julie Yesko, Jackson Gastmeyer, and Bailey Dunks traveled to the tournament and competed in a variety of events that included, persuasive public speaking, after dinner speaking,

For the fourth speech we had, I was talking about knitting and how to do it with only the knit snitch. While reviewing myself I noticed that I looked at the paper too much. I seem unprepared and could have practiced more. My speech from the get go has a lot of ums and ahs. Though I look too much at my paper my eye contact does not stay to one area but changes every other time I looked up which is a positive. I did not really make it clear when I said my references to all my sources, when presenting

Especially in modern day America, freedom of speech is more prevalent than ever, with the rising division in American politics. In which, there are many Americans with different opinions who are unwilling to truly listen to each other, which greatly affects what freedom of speech truly means today. Therefore, all Americans need to be willing to listen to all types of speech, whether it is hateful or not. In fact, it is clear to see why some Americans would take offense to some of the hateful words

Abby Koopmann Ethics Freedom of Speech Professor Hunt Culver Stockton College Freedom of Speech Americans have many freedoms that people in other countries can only wish they had. Just imagine a life where you could possibly be killed for speaking your mind and stating your opinion, other countries are living lives like that. According to Katy Davis, The United States ratified the first amendment on December 15th 1791 (Davis, n.d). We as a country don’t know where the government draws

Freedom of Speech is a concept that modern society is founded on. However, there has been much debate on how far should we go to protect freedom of speech. Some say that this freedom is essential and should have very few limits. Whereas others contend that there should be further restrictions put on this freedom to create a better, more inclusive society. This leads to the issue of “No Platforming”. Should speakers be allowed a platform no matter what their views are? Or should we carefully vet who

inconceivable to the Founding Fathers that Americans would ever arrive to a point in time where large parts of American society would support limiting the freedom of speech against those who disagree with them. The right to free speech is so important that the entire First Amendment of the United States Constitution is dedicated to the right to free speech, giving Americans a responsibility to protect this right, even against those who they disagree with. Political events over the last several years has created

The freedom of speech has generally been considered an elementary and basic right here in America since the country’s founding in the 1700’s without major challenges being brought forth. Today in the present American Society, opposition to a totally free right to speech without restriction is growing. Recent polls show up to 40% of people in the millennial generation agree that the freedom of speech requires new restrictions. This topic may be seen as a “freshman topic” by some, and that people

Freedom of Speech Freedom of Speech, part of the First Amendment, is a privileged right that should not be taken lightly. The Milo Bill is said to protect students’ right to their freedom of speech on school grounds. It was introduced at Tennessee’s State House and is named after Milo Yiannopoulos, a British public speaker who made a career out of “trolling” liberals and gained publicity for uncalled-for acts, such as racist and harassing comments on Twitter, which got him banned from the social

left should denounce social injustice, they often tend to forget the important historical connection to freedom of speech. It is important to realize that, “abolitionists, labor activists; religious group minorities, communists and socialists, cultural critics, gays, and lesbians…” all were victims of limited free speech.(Gillman) Perhaps the lack of historical understanding of free speech from the radical left is fathomable. However, a lack of historical knowledge of such an important right remains