Posted on 06/22/2015 5:33:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Say this for the guy: It takes some Jedi-level trolling to make yourself part of another country’s national debate about racism after a mass murder when you don’t even count as a celebrity there anymore.
I like that he calls for actual jail time, not a fine or parole or some other more ceremonial penalty. If we’re going to carve out First Amendment exceptions for thoughtcrimes, might as well be bold about it.
What would I do with white people who use the N-word? Jail them.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 22, 2015
Not to play a fool’s game here, but why limit punishment to white offenders? Believe it or not, that’s probably the biggest constitutional problem with his idea. The First Amendment is an obstacle too — a law that purported to criminalize the use of the N-bomb would probably be unconstitutional in any federal court in the country at the moment — but that obstacle might be cleared in due time. Remember Chris Cuomo mumbling about the “fighting words” exception to free speech? The “fighting words” doctrine says that the state can ban words which are so inflammatory that their mere utterance is apt to incite a breach of the peace. If there’s any word in American life that a majority of the public might agree rises to that level of inflammation, it’s the word “nigger.” In fact, Cuomo explicitly analogized between that word and drawings of Mohammed to try to capture how insulting Pam Geller had been to Muslims. If the left ever fully commits to trying to ban “hate speech,” Morgan’s idea is their strongest play, a potential foot in the door of First Amendment jurisprudence. Get one word banned successfully and then everything afterward is a simple matter of analogy. If people deserve jail time for the N-word, why doesn’t a cartoonist deserve it for a Mohammed drawing? Hate is hate, right?
How would you write that law to maximize its chances of passing Fourteenth Amendment scrutiny? Any thoughts, legal eagles? Treating a certain kind of behavior as a crime only when someone of a particular race engages in it seems … not so progressive, a prime facie violation of equal protection. I guess there are ways you could torture the jurisprudence to find that it’s copacetic — if protecting minorities (“suspect classes”) is the chief concern of equal protection, a law that focused on wrongdoing committed exclusively by the majority would be kinda sorta okay-ish if you squint real hard, I guess? I dunno. Presumably you write the law neutrally, making racist intent an element of the crime, and trust that prosecutors will understand that one black person calling another “nigga” playfully doesn’t meet the definition. But let’s not overthink this. Morgan’s not making a legal argument (the niceties of Second Amendment jurisprudence have never slowed him down from backing gun-grabbing), he’s making a moral argument to show his Twitter followers how enlightened he is. How enlightened is he? So enlightened that he’d eagerly embrace a precedent in which the state can imprison people for their opinions, obnoxious though they may be. Which is darned enlightened.
What would be real interesting to see is what would they do if we just stopped talking to them altogether. Libtards I mean.
Just shut them out. Refuse to speak to them. It would drive them apesh1t.
Piss Mogun is off his medication again.
Obama is half white with a bunch of Arab. So according to Piers, he needs to spend some time in jail. Probably half a sentence ?
"So Pierce, tell us, when did you stop using the N-word?"
Where is Jeremy Clarkson when you need him.
“The little Nazis are getting more bold and frequent with their pronunciations.”
Yet people can still convince themselves what happened in Nazi Germany could never happen here.
it has already started, the same way it started there really
“Prior restraint”. That’s an Anglo-Canadian thing.
Of course, having become used to American freedom of speech, if Piers’ journo-ox were being gored, he would be screaming like a little girl.
If Rachael Whatsherface uses the word, should she be sent to a pretend jail?
See it more and more every day.
I believe there is event coming very shortly like the 2010 attempted car bombing in NYC which they tried to blame on the TEA Party after which the left started calling for rounding up anyone associated with the TEA Party as terrorist.
Pretty much the same thing was done with the OKC bombing in 1995.
In 2009 Howard Dean let the cat out of the bag and let it be known the dems had an assassination plot against Obama which they planned to blame on racist right wing extremist.
As long as dems control the news media, false flags will work.
Yo piers,
Go back to that craphole country of yours pal.
And I find the words “Piers Morgan” to be disgusting and think that anyone using them should also be jailed/ostracized....
Things would have turned out so much better if Clarkson had had
another go at this jerk instead of Oison Tymon.
Which “N-word”?
Piers, could you be a little more specific?
Should we include “N-word” also in the ban since it can be used in the same capacity? Is the word “inward” also safe?
Jailed for the use of a word, but only for certain people?
Let’s face it: piers should be immediately deported.
And idiot British commenters should refrain from living.
Piers is the spokewoman for the anti-American white people of the country.
Well, let’s start with Obama, and then the rappers.
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