Sentence examples for offending speech from inspiring English sources

In England, the burden is in exactly the other direction: the offending speech is presumed to be false, and it is up to defendants like Ms. Lipstadt to prove that it is in fact true.

Outcries about free speech that revolve solely around western controversialists and unhinged gunmen declaring insult threaten to narrow our understanding of its value; we are in danger of thinking of all offending speech as brave speech.

To know whether Facebook is following its own policies, or what even Facebook considers a piece of offending hate speech, more information is required than what Facebook has published itself.

In the tradition he opposes, harm or hurt is physically defined; one can be discomforted and offended by speech; but something more than speech or image is required for there to be genuine (and legally relevant) damage.

Rev. Allan Ramirez, who is close to the Lucero family, stated that the Trump speech is "offending all of us who consider the area sacred ground," and asked, "How much more hurtful can you be?" Rev. Dwight Wolter, who presided over the funeral of Marcelo Lucero, similarly urged that the speech be moved.

The second argument one might make for punishing those who condemn Islam and mock Mohammad is that such speech causes serious harm because those who are offended by the speech will react to it in violent ways.

What happened in Charlottesville was not hate speech that merely offended, it was violent speech.

In the Cheremis keremet only the native language could be spoken because the deities would have been offended by foreign speech.

"You know, a lot of the scientists were very offended by that speech," he recalled.

Clarke then tweeted: "So @SayeedaWarsi is now slagging off the Jewish Tory party chairman … who was offended by her speech".

He appeared particularly offended that my speech linked low voter turnout to widespread ignorance about the struggles, foreign and domestic, which secured the right to vote.