432 () posted 3 years ago by CounterStrike 3 years ago by CounterStrike +432 / -0 40 comments share 40 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Hate speech is Free speech
There is only speech and all of it is free.
Exactly. Otherwise the goalposts keep moving, when in reality there are no goalposts or boundaries on language.
I keep asking people to define hate speech.
You can really trip them up doing that because they can only give examples, not a definition. If they do give a definition then I tell them their responses are hate speech.
Yes Hate crimes are only ACTIONS taken against somebody. Words are not actions, hurting feelings is not a crime.
Beating a person because of their skin color IS a hate crime. Calling them a racial slur is just rude.