Anna’s Communication Class Assignment

“One of the most treasured civil liberties is freedom of speech. At the same time, most people would agree that some forms of racists and sexist speech are hateful and demeaning to their targets. As you have read in the chapter, language shapes the attitudes of those who hear it.

How do you reconcile the principle of free speech and the need to minimize hateful and discriminatory messages? Do you think that laws and policies can and should be made that limit certain types of communication? If so, how should those laws be written to protect the right to free speech? If not, justify the protection of even racist and sexist language.”

Note that this is not a communications class. This is a cultural Marxist class dressed up as a communications class. What does any of this have to do with individual students learning the skills of communication?

In the below I tease out the agenda of this assignment.

1.) the whole underlying emphasis of the assignment is to get the student to believe that the fist amendment needs to be ignored, or reevaluated and rewritten.

2.) How does the teacher know what most people agree to? Gratuitous assumption with no proof.

3.) I would say that language only shapes the attitudes of those who hear it when those who are shaped by what they hear are stupid. People who are epistemologically self conscious are never shaped by what they hear but instead are those who shape by what they teach.

4.) first question, second paragraph … Teacher assumes what she has not proven and with this question she prejudices the answer to the second question of the second paragraph.

5.) Third question is a contradiction and resolves to

How do you write laws to protect the right to free speech when you are writing laws to restrict the right to free speech?

6.) The final question is simply answered by appealing to the first amendment as it is already written.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him. View all posts by jetbrane