Comments by "m w" (@mw-pl5rg) on "Dave Rubin Handles Protesters at UNH (FULL VIDEO) | FREE SPEECH | Rubin Report" video.

Many of these young people that where disrupting this event will one day cringe when they realize that in fact they were not even close to being right. The girl at the end spoke of a lynching of a anecdotal black person. I would have asked who was the person who was lynched and where? I guarantee she wouldn't know who or where. The young black man who spoke that Rubin was contradicting himself. Saying that the supreme court had ruled in favor of slavery. That is true the supreme court did indeed rule for slavery. Yet as times changed and attitudes this same supreme court ruled that Jim Crow laws where unconstitutional. This same court ruled that Segregated schools were unconstitutional as well. The same supreme court made abortion the law of the land. I oppose abortion and feel it is wrong but my point is that is it fair to say sometimes the system isn't perfect as we see it but it does get it right from time to time. Free speech must be upheld no matter what and the reason being if one can make laws to ban certain speech because it offends subjective sensibilities then before long the power to criticize those in power will also be taken away. Here is a thought what if a Black gay man became a senator. Then let's say that same black gay man accepts bribes and someone wrote a article condemning the bribes he has taken and the corruption he has suborned. If hate laws are enacted declaring it illegal to write articles that offend blacks, gays, etc. Would not a reporter be jailed for condemning the black gay mans actions? It wasn't his color or his sexual orientation that was in question but his corrupt acceptance of bribes for his vote. Yet the law wouldn't consider this they would only point to his color and sexual orientation. That is the danger of hate speech laws. It makes people immune to criticism and makes political discourse almost impossible.
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