WEF Panelist Says U.S. Will Have ‘Hate Speech’ Laws ‘Soon’

At the World Economic Forum’s summit currently underway in Davos, Switzerland, European Commission VP Věra Jourová said that the United States will soon enact laws that criminalize “hate speech.”

Jourová made the comment during a CNN-hosted session discussing disinformation.

The Washington Free Beacon uploaded a clip of the MP’s exchange with CNN host Brian Stelter to Twitter.

“We need the people who understand the language and the case law in the country,” Jourová says in the clip. “Because what qualifies as hate speech, illegal hate speech—which you will have soon also in the U.S.—we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law.”

The comments out of Davos come as U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) introduced legislation that would make criticism from white people against minorities a federal crime.

The bill would Bill to criminalize “conspiracy to commit white supremacy,” which includes any criticism of non-white people that influences someone who commits a hate crime.

The Frist Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

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