Blog # 2

Blog# 2

Promote Tolerance

  Freedom of Speech and Extremist Speech

 "It has been argued that freedom of speech, especially through our practice of extending protection to speech that we find hateful or personally upsetting, teaches us to become more tolerant in other aspects of life — and that a more tolerant society is a better society," said Lee Bollinger.

How is it that in today's society, we need to be more tolerant of hateful, comments? Have we not learned to be more respectful to shut the vile words in exchange for better and adequate words. The meaning and value of Freedom of speech are really important. Freedom of Speech being able to express an opinion without government interference.

Now People have created Extremist Speech taking advantage of what used to be a safe place to speak Now is where you need to promote tolerance in Extremist Speech. 

One of the various ways that we see the use of extremist speech is Racism and discrimination. This is a topic that sadly is one of the most common in The U.S. and around the world. We are all different, with different backgrounds, cultures, morals, and values, and even the way we are taught, makes a huge impact on the way we see the world and project ourselves. 

"I didn't expect people to be racist when we are countries known as brothers and sisters" Said, a Puerto Rican who visited one of the neighbor's islands. 

From just speaking another language, dressing differently, or acting another kind of way due to culture; there are people who expect you to tolerate racist comments allow extremist comments, and accept that they are pushing you down and keep your mouth shut because you're in their country. When the Freedom of speech should be mutual, as long we both show respect to one another and value the other person's opinion.

Extremist speech has become nowadays, part of a media culture where people would take advantage of a source. Coming from different media like Instagram, Snapchat, and even TikTok Tok users tend to interpret videos or posts taking them out of context to make the influencer of even normal people that don't take media seriously and It's just having fun in the app look bad. Where, users would attack the person behind the video, disrespecting making hateful comments, being racist or at a certain point start bullying. Changing the freedom of speech into Extremist Speech

In today's Generation, I feel people are not using the freedom of speech, the reason was created to take advantage of the privilege that we have by having it. Missing the meaning of freedom of speech, with Extremist Speech. 

To make a difference from today to the future lest change the Hate speech versus freedom of speech ...

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Even If our differences keep growing over time let those differences hold us tight to grow together. Freedom of Speech wasn't made to keep us apart, it was for everyone to have a voice and the power to express what they might be feeling, thinking that before they went able to.