And yeah I am aware this is being used to shoe-horn in restrictions on speech, but IMO that makes it all the more important to be frosty about what is actually being stated.
Pam is clearly making an offensive maneuver in our favor here (correctly classifying ANTIFA's activities as "hate speech" that rises to the level of a violent threat), and at the same time turning the "hate speech" terminology against the cabal and making them defend it.
The opportunity for the strategy you are pursuing--denying the existence of the term--has passed. This is a superior strategy: using the term against our opposition when they have little means to protect themselves from it.
<chomsky>I'm sure you meant to say "a made up noun phrase".</chomsky>
"Hate crime" is on the books in Texas. Didn't bother checking other states.
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.411.htm#411.046
"Hate speech" is an in-progress operation/concept in the US, but it's on the books with the euros:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32022R2065
And yeah I am aware this is being used to shoe-horn in restrictions on speech, but IMO that makes it all the more important to be frosty about what is actually being stated.
Pam is clearly making an offensive maneuver in our favor here (correctly classifying ANTIFA's activities as "hate speech" that rises to the level of a violent threat), and at the same time turning the "hate speech" terminology against the cabal and making them defend it.
The opportunity for the strategy you are pursuing--denying the existence of the term--has passed. This is a superior strategy: using the term against our opposition when they have little means to protect themselves from it.
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