UK lawyers uneasy about plan to prosecute hate speech at home

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

    I saw a feminist just yesterday saying "of course everyone has a human right to be protected from hate speech but ..." and I was like "wtf, no they don't."

    Hate speech didn't even exist in the West until a few decades ago and now it's consider a human right to lock people up for it? Crazy. People really need to examine their assumptions about this suff. Hate speech laws always been used to silence political opponents and dissidents. That's not something they've just discovered, it's built in to the concept.

    https://www.hoover.org/research/sordid-origin-hate-speech-laws

    [–]dontbuyanylogos[S] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    It's also just a ridiculously obvious Orwellian newspeak propaganda term... "Hate speech". It's really not so far from "wrongthink". It's so weird how society has fallen for it. That's the power of fear I suppose