This page includes materials relating to the continuing controversy over government attempts to regulate hateful speech, especially that directed against minorities. ... R. A. V. ... A year after R. A. V.,

hate speech n. Bigoted speech attacking or disparaging a social or ethnic group or a member of such a ... Dictionary: hate speech

Hate speech--in this country, principally racist and anti-Semitic speech--has always been recognized as First Amendment-protected.

In my group project on the first amendment rights, I focused my efforts on hate speech. The chapter that was talked about from the Civil Liberties text was chapter one.

4. Speech codes publicly announce a university’s support of civil rights and equal dignity of all persons; the failure to adopt a speech code implies that the University condones hate speech.

When civil liberties are pitted against the right to freedom of speech, which does justice favor? Do the costs of hate speech codes outweigh their benefits? ... Hate speech codes follow several formats.

IN DECEMBER 1994 I wrote the first of what would become a yearly series of columns on the subject of liberal hate speech. ... Read Jeff Jacoby's previous columns on liberal hate speech

Hate is not new to 2009. And negative campaigning, ... To that end, his party passed The Sedition Act to punish the very kind of speech his followers used against Thomas Jefferson. It didn't matter.

Q: Well, given that speech codes are a threat to the First Amendment, and given the importance of equal opportunity in education, what type of campus policy on hate speech would the ACLU support?

Ms. Murguia argued that hate speech should not be tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights: