[elizabetty]

Have you actually read Free Republic threads lately?

There is a lot of hate here these days.

[gidget7]

links?

[Junior_G]

Have you actually read Free Republic threads lately?

There is a lot of hate here these days.

You, and a lot of other people, do not understand what "hate" means in this context. FR is not even close to being a hate site.

[whatisthetruth]

Hate site? Can someone please explain to me what is a 'hate site' and why all the paranoia about being described as such?

Hate is in the eyes of the beholder and who is going to set the standards on what constitutes hate? Is disagreement hate? sarcasm? humor? symbolism?

What offends one may not necessarily offend another, is being offended by someone's post now mean it's 'hate'? I hate liberals and everything they stand for, am I allowed to voice that sentiment or is that more 'hate' speech? Am I now a hateful person? But I also love conservatism, why am I not now a person full of love? This whole 'hate' debate is nauseatingly feminine, am I now a sexist?

You can't censor hateful thoughts in a 'free' Republic and still be free but you can expose them for what they are with a consensus of legitimate responses IF in fact hate is what they truly are, is any and all name-calling now considered 'hate' speech and was Free Republic's primary purpose to be a forum free from acrimony or dare I say 'hate' thoughts?