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The Folly of Criminalizing “Hate”
Mises Institute ^ | September 10, 2024 | Wanjiru Njoya

Posted on 09/13/2024 7:20:09 AM PDT by Angelino97

Many people were shocked when over 1,000 protesters were arrested in the UK and jailed for various offenses including “violent disorder” and stirring up racial hatred. Most shocking were the cases of those arrested for posting social media comments on the riots, despite not being present at the scene and there being no evidence that anybody who joined in the riots had read any of their comments.

In societies which uphold the value of individual liberty, the only purpose of the criminal law should be to restrain and punish those who commit acts of aggression against other people or their property. The criminal law should not be used to prevent people from “hating” others or to force them to “love” each other.

In announcing yet another raft of laws “to expand the list of charges eligible to be prosecuted as hate crimes,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said that “During these challenging times, we will continue to show up for each other. We are making it clear: love will always have the last word in New York.” To that end, she introduced “legislation to significantly expand eligibility for hate crime prosecution.”...

The importance of the first amendment in thwarting attempts to outlaw “hate speech” can be seen in New York’s Assembly Bill A7865A (2021-2022), which provides that humiliating or vilifying anyone on social media based on their identity is hateful conduct and, therefore, illegal. The bill requires social media networks to report “hateful conduct on their platform,” and defines hateful conduct as “the use of a social media network to vilify, humiliate, or incite violence against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; freedomofspeech; hatecrime; hochul

1 posted on 09/13/2024 7:20:09 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

all crime is hate. Jesus realized that and wanted everyone to love one another... no one commits crimes against those they love.


2 posted on 09/13/2024 7:25:20 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Angelino97

This woman is horrid.


3 posted on 09/13/2024 7:39:22 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: teeman8r
all crime is hate. Jesus realized that and wanted everyone to love one another... no one commits crimes against those they love.

The problem is that all disagreement with leftists is hate, in their view. Hate is a crime, in their view. So all disagreement is a crime. Prison for you!
4 posted on 09/13/2024 7:56:08 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: teeman8r

“All crime is hate.”

Could be, but what about this: is all hate a crime?

BTW, who defines hate?


5 posted on 09/13/2024 8:01:38 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: Angelino97

ironic that hating hate is also hate. but it’s a good hate apparently.


6 posted on 09/13/2024 8:13:37 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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To: aspasia

“All crime is hate.”

Could be, but what about this: is all hate a crime?

BTW, who defines hate?

I DEFINE WHAT IS HATE buwahahahahahahahaha


7 posted on 09/13/2024 8:49:32 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Angelino97

From George Orwell’s novel “1984”

“In the fictional totalitarian state of Oceania, INGSOC (Newspeak for English Socialism) is the the philosophy that the regime follows and enforces. The idea of both INGSOC and the existence of Newspeak (the language created by the government) is to control the population and limit their ability to think freely.


8 posted on 09/13/2024 8:52:18 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: teeman8r

All jokes are ________.


9 posted on 09/13/2024 9:06:08 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: aspasia
All jokes are ________.

"...attempts at humor."

"Ha ha ha, that is very logical."

10 posted on 09/13/2024 9:15:08 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: aspasia

All jokes are ________.

supposedly funny. but comedy is hard.

leave the jokes to me.

buwahahahahahaha


11 posted on 09/13/2024 9:52:29 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: teeman8r

Yeah, but you were doin’ the Jesus thingy, and he ain’t funny.


12 posted on 09/13/2024 9:58:01 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: Angelino97

it is not folly

it is an essential element of tyranny


13 posted on 09/13/2024 10:24:05 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Angelino97

If you hate “hate”, is that a hate crime?


14 posted on 09/13/2024 10:37:04 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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