Freedom of expression does not mean you can tag swastikas and racial slurs on someone elses private property.
That’s called Vandalism and its punishable to the full extent of the law. And since the Hate Crimes Bill was passed. It can also be applied to their criminal act in which the punishment can be harsher with longer sentences.

Noose hangings is a Hate Crime.

We must enforce the Hate Crimes Laws vigorsiouly.

The Jena teens were not proven in court to have “savagely beat up” one guy. At least two of those charged had adult witnesses that could tesitfy they got to the fight after it was broken up. Justin Barker’s taunting of Robert Baily of getting beat up by whites, was what caused the fight.

The whites were not facing “23 to 100 years in jail”. That is what the protest was about~double standards of justice.

Not too long ago a black man was tied to the back of a truck and dragged around town. That is what hate crimes are. Justin Barker is the hater, much like the young man that purposely rode around town with the nooses. Like Barker he was taunting people hoping to incite violence.

Freedom of speech was written into the constitution to ensure citizens could redress government for grievances without fear of penalty under the law. It says nothing about displaying nooses to threatening lynchings.

Speech is not nooses, or burning crosses.

Since we are playing group guilt by association, and dredging up the wrongs of the past, there’s nothing wrong with pointing out that to this day, Jews appear utterly unrepentant about their role in the bloodshed unleashed in the USSR.

Oh my god, y’all crack me up! You’re like puppies who see shiny things they can grab at whenever a light flashes on the wall. We could be talking about pain chips and you’d find a way to bring your hateful rhetoric against Jews into it. How’s all that hate working out for you?

It is also, in this case, an “appeal to emotion”… another fallacious tactic.

Not really. You don’t find monuments supporting “white supremacy” in New York or San Francisco. Instead, you find other cultural issues that can and do cause divisive, hateful rhetoric and action. In either case they are contextual and our understanding of them is partially informed by the understanding of what it means to live in a place that professes to support certain ideas. It isn’t an excuse or justification, but it certainly sheds some light on how it was even possible for this kind of ignorance to be fostered in someone so young. To deny that environment plays a role in the way we think is simply foolish.

The appeal to emotion fallacy doesn’t work in this case, either. No one is asking you (general you) to put aside logic for emotion, nor are they asking for something that is not practically expedient. If the post had read, “Munsen’s home town was the site of a race riot in 1873,” without any other information, you could make the guilt by association and appeal to emotion claims. However, the fact that a monument to “white supremacy” still stands in the town 135 years after the incident and 40 years after the symbolic “end” of the civil rights movement is certainly enough information to supply the missing logical steps.

Cathy, I’m not talking about the boy’s criminal guilt.

“Guilt by association” is the technical term for a logical fallacy. In this case, we are invited to make judgments about a person’s soul based upon the history of his home town.

It is also, in this case, an “appeal to emotion”… another fallacious tactic.

If Mr. Munsen were a black man doing the exact same actions he would have not been charged with a hate crime.

Also, the “Jena 6″, black teens that brutally beat up a white teen, were never charged with a hate crime. If they had been white teens beating up on a black teen you can bet they would have been charged with a “hate crime”.

Progressives (liberals) have perverted out country into a racist hate-filled environment. They use the arm of government to pick and choose their definitions of what is hate and who should be guilty of “hate”.

So much for such constitutional concepts like free speech, freedom of expression, blind justice, and equality.

Society shows what it values and what is acceptable by its monuments to history, and also by what it does not say or do. There apparently need to be adjustments in the messages this town gives to its youth, and, to actively increase the socially expected level of tolerance and compassion towards those who are different from them.

Thanks for another eye opening post.

Isn’t that known as the “guilt by association” fallacy?

The Colfax Massacre — like many other race riots — is a fascinating page of American history.

But to present it in the context of “offer[ing] a clue” about the personality of 19-year-old Munsen is rather dodgy.