Europe has felt in its flesh the end-result of the political use of hate speech. Perhaps others should learn from our mistakes.
Dig1t · 7h ago
There is no such thing as hate speech. There is only speech.
“Hate speech” can be (and usually is) applied to whatever type of speech the people in power want to silence.
psd1 · 5h ago
Oh no? Never watched a Hitler speech?
Maybe our censorship is a problem. But I'm damned if I'll be lectured by a yankee, huffing her founding-myth farts, whose "justice" system is literally chattel slavery. Finish your civil war, you dilettantes.
Dig1t · 35s ago
The UK has people in prison for tweets and saying mean words. We do not have that; the first amendment is not a myth.
You called me a dilettante, I claim that is hate speech. It meets all the (current) criteria for hate speech.
Do you think that the government should be able to silence or punish you because I was offended by your insult? A world where that is true is a world where freedom and democracy die.
Language is context dependent and requires interpretation. I can easily take someone’s words out of context and they become hate speech, I can also easily misinterpret someone’s words and they become hate speech. What is fine one day can become hate speech the next under a different administration.
The author of this seems to be closing their eyes to the possibility that these statements about free expression aren't genuine.
The Republican party cares because of the perception that conservatives are being censored. If they don't care about Trump's actions, it is because they haven't been directed against them.
“Hate speech” can be (and usually is) applied to whatever type of speech the people in power want to silence.
Maybe our censorship is a problem. But I'm damned if I'll be lectured by a yankee, huffing her founding-myth farts, whose "justice" system is literally chattel slavery. Finish your civil war, you dilettantes.
You called me a dilettante, I claim that is hate speech. It meets all the (current) criteria for hate speech.
Do you think that the government should be able to silence or punish you because I was offended by your insult? A world where that is true is a world where freedom and democracy die.
Language is context dependent and requires interpretation. I can easily take someone’s words out of context and they become hate speech, I can also easily misinterpret someone’s words and they become hate speech. What is fine one day can become hate speech the next under a different administration.
Looks like they are about to start another.
The Republican party cares because of the perception that conservatives are being censored. If they don't care about Trump's actions, it is because they haven't been directed against them.
Edit: typo