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Related: About this forumTYT: Poll: Millennials Want To Ban Offensive Speech
A recent poll reveals that 40% of millennials think that offensive speech should be banned. The Pew report shows that young people think the government should step in to ban speech that might be offensive to others. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
Do you think the government should ban offensive speech? Let us know in the comments below.
Read more here: http://www.newsweek.com/pew-report-40-percent-us-millennials-favor-bans-speech-offensive-minorities-397053
More than any other generation, Millennials are militant about the use of offensive language towards minorities, and are rejecting the idea of a blanket right to free speech. A Pew report published on Friday revealed that 40 percent of Millennials in America (aged 18 to 34) were in favor of the government limiting hateful speech offensive to minorities.
The Millennial jump is significant from the percentage of Gen Xers who had the same opinion (27 percent) and an even smaller proportion of Boomers (24 percent) who believed that the government should have the ability to limit offensive speech. Only 12 percent of the so-called Silent generationAmericans aged 70 or olderwere likely to support the idea.
The study found that race, sex and political leaning influenced decision-making. Specifically, non-whites were more likely to be in favor of government limits on speech (38 percent), as opposed to non-Hispanic white Americans (23 percent). A mere 18 percent of Republicans thought that the government should exercise prevention against hateful speech against minorities, while nearly double the number of Democrats35 percentwould be in favor of it. One third of women surveyed were supportive of the government limits, and only 23 percent of men thought the same.
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TYT: Poll: Millennials Want To Ban Offensive Speech (Original Post)
WhoIsNumberNone
Nov 2015
OP
That's kind of foolish...this is why people don't trust millennials with our government
NYCButterfinger
Nov 2015
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Hoppy
(3,595 posts)1. I, for one, don't want to hear nothin' that I don't want to hear.
Why should I have to waste my time thinking?
NYCButterfinger
(755 posts)2. That's kind of foolish...this is why people don't trust millennials with our government
They're not hardened. They don't want to be criticized. They want to feel "loved". People tell me offensive things everyday, and I move on. Some people should. Obviously, saying bigoted things isn't right, but you can't shut down free speech.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)3. Du is getting full of them.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)4. They must want to eliminate FOX "News".