Over thirty organizations want the Federal Communications Commission to open up a probe on “hate speech” and “misinformation” in media. “Hate has developed as a profit-model for syndicated radio and cable television programs masquerading as ‘news’,” they wrote to the FCC earlier this month.
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The groups who want this new proceeding include Free Press, the Media Access Project, Common Cause, the Prometheus Radio Project, and the League of United Latin American Citizens. Their statement, filed in the Commission’s Future of Media proceeding, comes in support of a petition to the agency submitted over a year ago by the National Hispanic Media Coalition.
“Hate speech against vulnerable groups is pervasive in our media—it is not limited to a few isolated instances or any one media platform,” NHMC warned the FCC in 2009. “Indeed, many large mainstream media corporations regularly air hate speech, and it is prolific on the Internet. Hate speech takes various forms, from words advocating violence to those creating a climate of hate towards vulnerable groups. Cumulatively, hate speech creates an environment of hate and prejudice that legitimizes violence against its targets.”
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In addition, the groups wants the FCC to examine “the prevalence of misinformation” in the media, since misinformation “creates a climate of prejudice.”
The words ‘henhouse’ and ‘fox’ spring to mind.
Adolf Stoecker, the Lutheran court chaplain to Kaiser Wilhelm I, founded in 1878 an antisemitic, antiliberal political party called The Christian Social Party.
In 1883, Frenchman Ernest Renan claimed that the Semitic mind was limited by dogmatism and lacked a cosmopolitan conception of civilisation.
In 1880 German journalist Wilhelm Marr published a pamphlet “The Way to Victory of the Germanic Spirit over the Jewish Spirit” and founded the “League of Antisemites”.
In the first half of the 20th century, in the USA, Jews were discriminated against in employment, access to residential and resort areas, membership in clubs and organizations, and in tightened quotas on Jewish enrollment and teaching positions in colleges and universities. The Leo Frank lynching by a mob of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia in 1915 turned the spotlight on antisemitism in the United States. The case was also used to build support for the renewal of the Ku Klux Klan which had been inactive since 1870.
In 2006, it was revealed that Laine Lawless, former Minuteman Project member and founder of Border Guardians (an anti-illegal immigration organization), sent e-mails to leaders of the National Socialist Movement (a neo-nazi organization) in which she encouraged violence against “illegals” and Spanish speaking individuals.
According to FBI statistics, the number of anti-Latino hate crimes increased by 35 percent since 2003. In California, the state with the largest Mexican and Mexican-American population, the number of hate crimes against Latinos has almost doubled.
Organizations such as neo-nazis, white supremacist groups, American nationalist, and nativist groups have all been known and continue to intimidate, harass and advocate the use of violence towards Mexican Americans.
Anti-immigrant sentiment has led to spike in hate crimes targeting not just the Mexican-American community, but also people of Hispanic roots as well.
The Tea Party movement is a United States socio-political movement that emerged in 2009 through a series of locally- and nationally-coordinated protests.
I am in support of Arizona’s new Immigration Law, and believe in the right of each state to protect its own citizens from the effects of illegal immigration.
Step One: Sign the petition.
Step Two: Share with everyone on your Facebook pages.
Step Three: Use the ‘I Support Arizona’ image on your Facebook and Twitter profiles.
It starts with rhetoric, pamphlets, letters to the press. Becomes small orders or groups of people that become political parties.
Do you want the next step? Do you REALLY want that?
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Agree that banning on-line hate speech and misinformation sites is a double edged sword.
On the one hand it shuts down religious on-line sites from stirring the “unhinged” conservative sheeple.
On the other hand, it provides a powerful means to tell the truth and bring fresh ideas forward.
#22 I see you’re still bent over backward to get the pity of everyone here.
I would support that ban and my first order would be to ban your posts. So much stupidity in one person cannot be allowed.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
So tell me again: how are they going to prohibit certain speech? The Obama administration is using the Constitution as toilet paper.
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Excellent rant dude… Power to the people!
.before it’s too late.
I hate the FCC. And their murderous ways.
Oh, like the FCC is gonna regulate anything.*
*unless you flash some boob
You can’t do matey.
Every politician would be out of work because they would have nothing to talk about. ALL, and I do mean ALL politics is about misinformation, of ‘re-constructing’ what your political opponents have written, or said in order to make out to others that they are wrong, that their position is untenable, is not in the public interest or has offended some several hundred-year-old untouchable statement or document.
If you think I’m talking here about the Constitution, the Holy Koran or the Bible, then you’ve got the point.
All three are, of course, political, big on promises that someone else will keep – or so they claim! Evidence for promise kept seems to me to be a bit thin on the ground
Nowadays, I can get in trouble at work for saying something “offensive”. There is no clear definition of what is “offensive”. For instance, I “offended” a female reporter for saying a Chinese driver was driving as if the world was fucking centered around her. Which she was. Ooooooh. Big problem there..
Naturally, leftist liberal bullshit is clearly offensive to ME, and when I have to put up with endless blathering about how wrong it is for Arizona, for example, to enforce the law, I am deeply offended. Liberals only know how to apply their “justice” in a manner agreeable to their own platform. Hence, leftists preach diversity, preach inclusion, but absolutely refuse to allow any dissention.
Jeeze. These people sound just like all those Pakastini nutters who are demanding an international law of the death penalty for anyone who draws muhammand.
#29
Where was this great state of Arizona when the government was tapping phones without warrant?
Where were they when the government had systems at Verizon to watch all the emails?
Where were they when the government ramrodded Patriot Act I & II?
Where were they when the same immigration enforcement was in place during Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush Jr.?
Why did they let government do what they did before and never ONCE wrote any law that took over control from the federal level to the state level?
BUT in 1987 when Dr Martin Luther King Jr Day was being created to honour him and give Americans a day off this happened in AZ:
Sen. John McCain (Republican of Arizona) voted against the creation of the holiday to honor King, and later defended Arizona Republican Governor Evan Mecham’s rescission of the state holiday in honor of King created by his Democratic predecessor. After his opposition grew increasingly untenable, McCain reversed his position, and encouraged his home state of Arizona to recognize the holiday despite opposition from Mecham.
Now tell me how incredibly bigoted can people be that they will NOT take a PAID holiday off for a black man?
I would take a paid holiday off for Soupy Sales if given it. I don’t care WHO the man or woman is or the amount of melanin they have in their skin. He helped lead an end to the horribly wrong segregation in the US and was murdered for his work. THAT alone is worthy of some recognition.
AZ has issues. And I think it is the same issues that many Tea Party people have. The Euro-Descent caucasians are seeing their numbers dwindle and their power fading as they see hispanics, asians & africans coming in.
It is FEAR. And fear leads to anger, because people get angry that they have to be afraid. Anger leads to hate and hate leads to malice.
Isolationism is always due to fear.
Fear of change.
Fear of the unknown.
Fear of disappointment.
Fear of compromise.
Fear causes men to hate their fellow man. What they don’t seem to realise is two things:
Hispanics are descended from Europeans as well.
Hispanics make up the population of most nations south of their border all the way to Antarctica.
Get over it. Accept it. THEY are the dominate group in the Western Hemisphere.
They can’t hold back the tide.
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#31 “Now tell me how incredibly bigoted can people be that they will NOT take a PAID holiday off for a black man?”
To be fair MLK did not do as much for the world as George Washington Carver. Carver is one of my heroes. From time to time I visit a statue of him.
“The Euro-Descent caucasians are seeing their numbers dwindle and their power fading as they see hispanics, asians & africans coming in.”
Really? Seems like the power of the rich Caucasians increases with a flow of wage slaves coming in. How does this help Hispanics to be taken advantage of. You don’t care about the Hispanics; you just want to make sure your produce comes in good and cheap.
Or maybe what Hispanics need is a man like Carver to make a way for produce to be harvested more cheaply so the workers can be paid a fair wage.
#3 By any reasonable yard stick you just engaged in hate speech. The fact that you are to bigoted to even recognize the fact is your problem but I’m pretty sure that your definition of hate speech is anyone who disagrees with me is engaging in hate speech and anything I might say is fine.
The problem that even a narrow minded bigot should recognize is the party in power gets to define hate speech and that usually means anyone that disagrees with them goes to jail.
Unless you are planning on the Dems staying in power by use of guns I suggest you rethink your position.
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As someone who was in Arizona during the MLK debacle I have to ask you to ask why Governor Bruce Babbitt(Democrat) decided to wait till his last days in office to make an executive order that created an illegal paid holiday. It was purely political sour grapes and illegal. Governor Evan Mecham rescinded that executive order, due to being illegal, but did create a non-paid holiday for Martin Luther King which was all he could do legally. But I know, you guys don’t give a flying f&^k about legality. The major point was that the majority of Arizonians didn’t want to create another paid holiday. In the end Columbus Day got the paid holiday boot so MLK could be a paid holiday and it was done through the Arizona House and Senate the legal way. Of course a lot of Arizona government employees were probably disappointed because they didn’t really give a damn about MLK they just wanted another paid holiday which, in the end, they didn’t get.
Tea Party: The new KKK. With better clothes!
#23 Pedrito. You would hurt my feelings that way by banning me from Dvorak? How else am I going to train you?
BTW, why are you not wiping the Alabama beaches with your dig dig dig tee shirt? You should get you and your mule out there and take responsibility.
#18 This is the problem, there is no concept of repealing rights. That implies that the government, by virtue of a constitution, granted them to us. This is not the case, our rights are inalienable. They are self evident and not available to be taken away. Of course the government is going to try to take them away anyway, thinking they are the granter and repealer of rights. Even if they try to take them away these rights will still exist, it’s just that our access to them will be blocked by the government.
Boycott Dallas!
People are waking up and realizing he is nothing but an adolescent troll whose brain is full of psychotic, idiotic mush and who’s soul if nothing but vitriolic hatred.
Hopefully he will go play in his sandbox and leave us adults alone.
#36 But I thought you were in favor of such PC censorship. Make up your mind already.
#34 GF
Now there you go, putting the truth in the way of a really good rant that just happened to be B.S.