Not Tired of Winning Yet XXIII
Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms: There is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment.
In a firm 8-0 decision, the court slapped down the Patent and Trademark Office for denying a band federal trademark registration for the name “The Slants,” a derogatory term for orientals. The case involves a very small corner of federal law, but implicates the broader logic of political correctness, which is that speech should be silenced for the greater good if there is a chance that someone, somewhere might be offended by it.
My comment: I am simply not used to coming across so much good news. The last unanimous decision I recall was about the Obama administration demanding to see transcripts of a pastor’s homilies for acceptable content. Only the most outrageously unconstitutional case ever gets a unanimous verdict.
Even the Lefties are not sticking up for Political Correctness in Trump’s America. Lefties in my youth were staunchly pro-free-speech. May those days come again.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
