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40 Percent of Millennials Okay With Legally Limiting Offensive Speech

posted by cmn32480 on Monday November 23 2015, @12:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the our-precious-little-snowflakes dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Turns out all of you who thought millennials were fascist little turds were 40% correct.

American Millennials are far more likely than older generations to say the government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive statements about minority groups, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data on free speech and media across the globe.

We asked whether people believe that citizens should be able to make public statements that are offensive to minority groups, or whether the government should be able to prevent people from saying these things. Four-in-ten Millennials say the government should be able to prevent people publicly making statements that are offensive to minority groups, while 58% said such speech is OK.

And this is why you should not be allowed to vote until you're mature enough to consider the consequences of your actions.

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 24 2015, @05:04AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday November 24 2015, @05:04AM (#267307) Journal

    12 to 18 years of hard core right wing indoctrination where might makes right and you can think whatever you want but in school non-Fox News speech will get you severely punished, only one political extreme is acceptable.

    FTFY, you bloody fascist wannabe yellow-bellied sap-sucking chickenhawk pseudo-intellectual. (Oh, in case you do not know how to use a dictionary, pseudo- means "fake". You're welcome.)

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday November 24 2015, @12:32PM

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday November 24 2015, @12:32PM (#267417)

    I guess the teachers union is different where you live? I thought it was pretty much a national standard for the whole .edu system to wave the hammer and sickle with some obvious exceptions (Brigham Young Uni, etc)

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 24 2015, @05:28PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 24 2015, @05:28PM (#267601) Journal
    40% willing to squash free speech because racism is "hard core right wing"? Yea, right.

    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 24 2015, @06:51PM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday November 24 2015, @06:51PM (#267643) Journal

      Yeah! Right! You got a problem with that? National Front, David Duke, British National Party, Donald Trump, Likud, and Hitler, just for example's sake. Fine fellow travellers on the hard right!

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 24 2015, @08:40PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 24 2015, @08:40PM (#267688) Journal
        Yes, because you are doing a non sequitur. 40% of young adults in the US (and large numbers elsewhere) aren't eager to squash free speech because they are BNP members or equivalent.