Wait a minute, this is great news for me! I love it! This means when we are trying to clear a new medical device or packaging configuration with the FDA they will be unable to question our department’s findings.
Any criticism of our department by FDA officials will now be a hate crime. Yippeeeee!
Criticism, particularly constructive criticism, is most definitely NOT “hate speech”, so long as the critic avoids any ad hominem attacks.
When it becomes personal and does not address the failures or lapses of the performance of the person subject to the criticism, then it certainly becomes something else.
Even so, damning a person’s performance by faint praise is still a legitimate form of criticism. again avoiding getting into direct scratching and biting.