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08/14/2008: "Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech"

"It's hate speech!" yelled one man.

"It's free speech!" yelled another.

In the United States, that debate has been settled. Under the First Amendment, newspapers and magazines can say what they like about minorities and religions - even false, provocative or hateful things - without legal consequence.

[ Yet both Britain and the US are predicted to become majority non-white before 2050 all the same. ]


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/us/12hate.html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1218716097-vI6BES2DWL9PJtIM6D7uUw