Tournament: ASU | Round: 2 | Opponent: will update later | Judge: will update later
Current protections against hate speech are working – on campus harrassment is decreasing nationally now.
Sutton 16 Halley Sutton, Report shows crime on campus down across the country, Campus Security Report 13.4 (2016), 9/9/16,http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/casr.30185/full LADI
A recent report released by the National Center for Education Statistics found an overall decrease
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lower than in 2001 for every category except forcible sex offenses and murder.
Removing restrictions on free speech allows hate speech – hate speech IS free speech
Volokh 15 Eugene Volokh,No, There’s No “hate Speech” Exception to the First Amendment, The Washington Post, 5/7/15, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/07/no-theres-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/?utm_term=.05cfdd01dea4 LADI
I keep hearing about a supposed “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment
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with any established definition of “hate speech” that I know of.)
Hate speech will be amplified in the face of powerless minorities—it instills terror and destroys education—turns the 1ac because free speech becomes exclusionary
SCU, S. (2016). Campus Hate Speech Codes - Resources - Character Education - Santa Clara University. Scu.edu. Retrieved 11 December 2016, from https://www.scu.edu/character/resources/campus-hate-speech-codes/ AS
Those who advocate hate speech codes believe that the harm codes prevent is more important
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free speech, and the just balance between individual rights and group rights.
Hate speech definitively incites violence – empirics prove
Joyce Arthur 11 (Joyce Arthur, Founder and Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, a national political pro-choice group.) The Limits of Free Speech, Rewire 9-21-2011 AT
Violent acts of hate are generally preceded by hate speech that is expressed publicly and
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, and socially—and pays the consequences through increased discrimination and violence.
Empirics disprove self-censorship, and hate speech cause direct harm that can’t be “corrected”
Sean Mcelwee 13 (Sean Mcelwee, ) The Case for Censoring Hate Speech, Huffington Post 7-24-2013 AT
It’s interesting to note how closely this idea resembles free market fundamentalism: simply get
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defamed, “There are a lot of other nice people out there.”