I am writing to ask you to oppose criminal punishment for racist speech, but instead to educate our children. For several years, I have read countless articles about criminal punishment for racial speech. You, of all people should know how slow our court system is right now and will be always with the hard time criminals.
The argument for criminal punishment says our society is to the point where we need to punish for hurting people's feelings or their emotional well being. Which I do agree saying hateful things about someone usually hurts their feelings, but if you prosecute or put someone in jail every time you hurt someone else's feeling on an emotional level everyone would have a criminal background at some point in time. Criminal prosecutions for hate language limits government officials to determine individually what speech i
I, like many others, believe education is the key to solving our hate speech problems. First we need to educate parents to teach their children that just because a person does not get their way in society does not mean people are looking at their race, color or sex. Our companies or governments should not have quotas on hiring different races or sexes. We need to encourage companies to give extra benefits for employees taking diversity training courses. These employees will not only take this education back to the workplace with them, but also take it home and teach by example for their children. In turn, I encourage you to create a diversity training class requirement for all of our high school and college students before graduation. Another suggestion, our "wonderful" ente
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