Free Speech Does Not Include Hate Speech

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Good day, My name is Kalel and my presentation is about how “Free speech does not include hate speech.” The definition of hate speech outside the law, is defined as any communication that disparages a person or a group on the basis of some characteristic such as: race, colour, wealth, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or other characteristics; whereas free speech or Freedom of speech is the political right to communicate one's ideas via speech. Because "freedom" is understood as a personal freedom with limits for every individual: your freedom stops where somebody else's freedom begins. Since hate speech is a form of verbal aggression, it is seen as overstepping the limits of someone else's personal freedom, like any unwelcome act of force. The popular catchphrase of free speech defenders is a quote which reads: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," which basically means that not everybody will agree with what you say but you have the right to say it and therefore nobody can take that right away for you. However this is a law that needs to be defended as in current times, one really needs to take care of what he/say is saying as just by simply speaking your mind at the wrong time can have serious consequences. An example will be our very infamous leader of the ANC Youth League Julius Malema defending his actions of what he said about the older members of the ANC and our president Jacob Zuma saying that he believes in freedom of expression and that our Constitution protects the right to freedom of expression. Julius Malema believes he was just voicing his opinion of the ANC and will not be a “robot” underneath the dictator Jacob Zuma. He believes that what he said was not said as a means to cause harm to President Zuma and therefore he should have his suspension from the ANC lifted so

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