Attack on the First Amendment

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Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Yep, just like hoping people could have half an ounce of compassion, or consideration, or basic kindness (hell, let's not even say "kindness," that's asking too much, let's instead just say "appearing, by accident or not, to have any basic decency") = POLITICALLY CORRECT NANNY STATE!

In other circles, also known as: ATTACK ON FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS!

Nobody is preventing anybody from saying anything. Did everyone miss that fact here?

Dear god, I don't believe this: on one hand, everyone is angry over what happened to Treyvon Williams; on the other they are upset that a town has publicly come out to support less racist and sexist speech.

Nobody has removed anybody's first amendment rights. A town is merely publicly supporting less racist and sexist public speech in public discourse.

Yeah. That's a terrible, terrible thing, for society to speak out on the quality of life we have.

The City Council voted 13-2 to pass the resolution with a motion urging “the management of radio and television stations in Los Angeles to do everything in their power to ensure that their on-air hosts do not use and promote racist and sexist slurs over public airwaves in the City of Los Angeles”.

Yeah - a clear assault on our first amendment rights, to encourage civil public discourse. What utter nonsense.