Question

A person writes negative posts on social media about people who immigrate into the United States. Their posts say that all immigrants should be refused entry, with force if necessary. The community calls for the person's arrest and conviction, claiming that their speech is hateful and must be banned.
Which statement about this scenario is true?

Negative expression is not protected, but there are limits to punishment for it.
Negative expression is also a protected right, regardless of the circumstances.
Negative expression is not protected and the person can be arrested and punished.
Negative expression is also a protected right unless it was intended and led to violence.

Answer 1

The statement that is true about this scenario on calling for the arrest of a person for hate speech is that Negative expression is not protected, but there are limits to punishment for it.

What is true of negative expression?

In the United States, a person's freedom of expression is protected but there are limits to this. Those limits come into play when the person engages in negative expression where they call for harm to be done to another person.

While these negative expression rights are not protected, there are still limits to punishments that can be imposed on a person. These limits are based on the crime that was committed by the person's expression of negative speech.

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