In Scotland, you can now report your family members to the hate speech police for conversations over dinner.

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[–]jet199 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The funny thing is that in the UK hate crimes are not defined on the structuralist idea that you need prejudice plus power to have an effect. The majority of people reporting a hate crimes in the UK are straight white people. Any strengthening of these laws is only going to hurt minorities.

This law is very much being pushed by entrenched religious community leaders who want to create new blasphemy laws by conning the woke into doing it for them. Those people really aren't going to do well if their dinner table rants get reported to the police. The question is, are they too stupid to realise this or not?

[–]literalotherkin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can you cite any of these cases where minorities have been hurt by these laws in the UK? Genuinely interested.

This law is very much being pushed by entrenched religious community leaders

What religious communities and leaders would they be?