[marktwain]

Inherent in our global human rights is the overriding tenet that our freedoms do not include the right to impinge on the rights of others to not be demeaned, degraded or disenfranchised.

Absolutely false. Popular speech is easy. It is unpopular speech that must be protected for free speech to have meaning.

The quote is right out of Orwell. It is 1984 in newspeak.

[morphing libertarian]

saying something is inherent often means I have no facts or support

[TigerClaws]

Exactly.

Hate speech is non-speech.

You have free speech rights until you say something we don’t like. Leftists now say that speech = violence. Not that it may be an incitement to violence but that, in and of itself, “hate speech” is an act of violence. This will be the mental maneuver to make anything they don’t want to hear illegal. No need to debate if there’s no right to even have the conversation.

For example, “dead naming” or “misgendering” a transsexual is, according to leftists, an act of violence.