Joy Behar on Trump: 'Why can't he be brought up on charges of hate speech?'

[mystery-ak]

Joy Behar on Trump: 'Why can't he be brought up on charges of hate speech?'
By Joe Concha - 07/18/19 12:18 PM EDT

"The View" co-host Joy Behar questioned Thursday why President Trump can't "be brought up on charges of hate speech" over his attacks against four minority Democratic congresswomen by urging them to "go back" to their home countries.

The question from Behar came the morning after the president's rally in North Carolina, where members of the crowd chanted "send her back" as Trump went after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who was born in Somalia before coming to the U.S. as a refugee.

"He doesn’t care or doesn’t acknowledge the fact that what he is doing is possibly inviting violence towards these women, and women who are saying this is wrong. I don’t like this," co-host Whoopi Goldberg said.

"No question," agreed co-host Sunny Hostin.


"This involves every female in this country," Goldberg argued.

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[Ghost Bear]

If "hate speech" were a crime, Joy Behar and her fellow harpies on "The View" would have been put into prison years ago.

[txradioguy]

'Why can't he be brought up on charges of hate speech?'

Who wants to be the one to tell her?

[mystery-ak]

Who wants to be the one to tell her?

Has she ever read the Constitution? 

[PeteS in CA]

For the same reason Joy Behar can't.

[Bill Cipher]

For the same reason Joy Behar can't.

Exactly

[rustynail]

Trump on "send her back" chant about Omar: "I was not happy with it. I disagree with it."

[roamer_1]

I sure am seeing this sort of thing a lot recently - the idea that 'some' speech should not be protected, because it is 'hateful', following after what passes as speech in Canada and the UK.
California is trying to go down that road...

The thing that doesn't work in that is the bare fact that offensive speech, by the nature of the thing, is really the only speech that needs to be protected.

[goatprairie]

This is what is in store for conservatives  down the road. If Dems get a majority in the house and senate, they will try to amend the constitution. Failing that, the Dem congressional majority will try to pass bills condemning "hate" speech as punishable by prison (or worse). If they can't do that, the radical Dem president will simply issue some EOs calling certain speech "hate" speech i.e speech liberals don't like. Real concentration camps will be set up to hold the millions guilty of "hate" speech.
But there just might be  a shooting war before all that happens.

[libertybele]

Ok...so I was wrong.  I was reserving the idea that DEM female politicians are stupid.  It now seems that in general, DEM females are stupid!

[skeeter]

For the same reason Joy Behar can't.

Concise yet brilliant.

[libertybele]

This is what is in store for conservatives  down the road. If Dems get a majority in the house and senate, they will try to amend the constitution. Failing that, the Dem congressional majority will try to pass bills condemning "hate" speech as punishable by prison (or worse). If they can't do that, the radical Dem president will simply issue some EOs calling certain speech "hate" speech i.e speech liberals don't like. Real concentration camps will be set up to hold the millions guilty of "hate" speech.
But there just might be  a shooting war before all that happens.

[roamer_1]

This is what is in store for conservatives  down the road. If Dems get a majority in the house and senate, they will try to amend the constitution. Failing that, the Dem congressional majority will try to pass bills condemning "hate" speech as punishable by prison (or worse). If they can't do that, the radical Dem president will simply issue some EOs calling certain speech "hate" speech i.e speech liberals don't like. Real concentration camps will be set up to hold the millions guilty of "hate" speech.
But there just might be  a shooting war before all that happens.

Likely your scenario is a bit hyperbolic, but yeah. Something like that. It will come in a bit softer than that... Frog in the pot... but the bindings are ever incrementally tightening.

[roamer_1]

Ok...so I was wrong.  I was reserving the idea that DEM female politicians are stupid.  It now seems that in general, DEM females are stupid!

You are STILL not looking at the aggregate...

And no, your knee-jerk assumptions are not correct - I do not mean all females are stupid...

Rather, all dems...

 

[goatprairie]

Likely your scenario is a bit hyperbolic, but yeah. Something like that. It will come in a bit softer than that... Frog in the pot... but the bindings are ever incrementally tightening.

Believe you me,  American liberals are looking (and marveling) at the "hate" speech laws in Canada and Europe and fervently wishing they could do that here.  And we know who'd define "hate" speech.

[roamer_1]

Believe you me,  American liberals are looking (and marveling) at the "hate" speech laws in Canada and Europe and fervently wishing they could do that here.  And we know who'd define "hate" speech.

That's right.