Conservative talkshow host Erick Erickson tore into “moron” Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday after she claimed “hate speech” did not count as “free speech” and would be targeted by her office.
“Someone needs to explain to Ms. Bondi that so-called ‘hate speech,’ repulsive though it may be, is protected by the First Amendment. She should know this,” weighed in Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume
Being a racist, bigot, fascist, or nazi is not an innate human characteristic, it is behavior. Even in countries that do not have insane loopholes in their freedom of expression the concept of hate speech is stringently defined. Calling out someone’s evil, malicious, dangerous, violent actions is not hate speech. Speaking out against hate speech is not hate speech. This is yet another example of rightist reality reversal rhetoric at work.