There is no such thing as hate speech.
Labeling free speech as “hate speech” is dangerous.
Hate speech = Telling the truth.
The danger is allowing ANYONE to define “hate speech” because it will inevitably lead to tyranny.
I reject the left’s newest invention “hate speech”.
Hate is a Motive, it isn’t a Crime.
Hate Speech and Hate Crime Laws are 100% Unconstitutional.
We aren’t living in China, North Korea or under Sharia Law.
This is the inevitable result of allowing the concept of “hate crimes” to gain legitimacy. It drives me crazy when FR posters proclaim some incident of bad behavior by the Left to be a “Hate Crime”.
It shouldn’t matter how someone is feeling or even what is motivating them when they commit a crime. A crime is a crime regardless of what motivated it, no conservative should ever stand for thoughts or ideas being criminalized.
“Hate speech” is any speech the Democrat/Inbred-Media complex disagrees with.
“Is ‘Hate Speech’ Dangerous?”
Only if I can find you.
I think the concept of “hate speech” is becoming a cancer.
We are getting past the point of being able to having policy disagreements or political disagreements.
We are a basket of deplorables, racist, sexist and all the rest, per the leftists who define what hate speech is.
The left considers all of us haters, and guilty of hate speech.
Some examples, per the leftist opinion:
If you oppose affirmative action, you are a racist.
If you oppose abortion on demand, you hate women.
If you oppose open borders, you are anti-immigrant and are xenophobic.
If you oppose the global warming doctrine, you hate mother earth, and in fact you are in favor of a despoiled environment.
If you oppose the leftist Medicare for All/socialized medicine plans, you want to throw granny off a cliff, and indeed you don’t want people to have access to health insurance and health care.
If you oppose Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax, then by definition, you hate all who would benefit from the wonderful government programs she would create. You hate the preschool teachers who would get a raise under her plans, for example.
I’m sure others can think of other examples. There is a liberal mindset out there, in which ANYTHING where you oppose the leftist solution to a problem means you hate those who would benefit from some government spending.
Brutal oppression of political speech is a core craving of every Democrat.
end speech they find offensive
Who is they? Why do "they" get to decide? What about "us"?
And why do "they" consider it offensive?
What if "they" find it offensive, but "we" or "I" for that matter, do not?
You might as well start by saying ALL speech is offensive, until a party of our betters (oow, that's offenisive!) decide a particular word or phrase is OK.
The list would need to be continuously revised, with words struck or added depending on the sensibilities of current popular culture.
WHAT A NIGHTMARE!
“Hate speech” does not exist.
What they call “hate” is the immune system of the soul.
Hate is dangerous, it leads to irrational actions.
‘Hate speech’ is an attempt to destroy Free Speech.
The speech some hate is magically presented as hate speech; dissenting intellectual positions become mental conditions; and contrary opinions are delegitimised – after all, there’s no need to argue with a mad man or woman. This is censorship by way of intellectual pathology. - Ben Shapiro
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Define “hate speech.”
Mostly it seems to be whatever offends Leftists or Moslems.
But “hate speech” however it is defined is not nearly as dangerous as laws against it.