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家园 理论上讲,公开场合的涉及政治和种族宗教的意见属于言论自由

一般的公开场合的Hate Speech, 比如“杀死黑人佬”是受第一修正案的保护的,但你对某一个黑人说“我要杀了你”那就是违法的。不过,这里的界限还在争论中,而且各个企业、政府、学校可以有自己的speech code,虽然你可以争论它是否违宪。

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects speech no matter how offensive its content.

Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, that intimidating speech directed at a specific individual in a face-to-face confrontation amounts to "fighting words," and that the person engaging in such speech can be punished if "by their very utterance [the words] inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace." Say, a white student stops a black student on campus and utters a racial slur. In that one-on-one confrontation, which could easily come to blows, the offending student could be disciplined under the "fighting words" doctrine for racial

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