“Hate speech” is a made up Marxist euphemism. A dog whistle for aspiring censors. There is no such thing as hate speech. There is only speech that particular people don’t like.

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I’ve been called a spic to my face. I didn’t really appreciate it. So, I stopped talking to that person and moved on. 🤯🤯🤯
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July 1 year ago
You don’t have to be a fan of Trump. You could even hate him. but the choice this November is clear. If the choice is between bad and worse. Give me bad.
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x 1 year ago
Well it could be worse, it could be raining!
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“Hate speech” is a made up Marxist euphemism. A dog whistle for aspiring censors. There is no such thing as hate speech. There is only speech that particular people don’t like.
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Agree. She thinks she can win the election with this approach. Assuming this is properly researched it illustrates where the electorate stands. A good portion of the voters seem to want to be guided as to what they can and cannot say.
Hate speech is very real. Censoring it is not only constitutionally dubious but also ineffective for a number of reasons, but simply calling it out and movong on with your life is often enough! Except of course when people looking to spread hate train their audience to automatically attack anyone who does so...
super crazy to hear this from a presidential candidate. full-on evil Marxist
The wife of a Conservative Councillor in the UK was recently convicted of inciting violence in one of her posts on X. Is what she said not an example of hate speech? image
I don't even pay attention to these platforms anymore. I don't have any idea what happens on these them. I don't even know what she defines as hate speech. I don't know why countries like the US and Brazil are banning these platforms. I don't even care. We have freedom tech.
Ok no this is straight up insanity. I don't like either side but this is absolutely gross 🤢 🤮 #freedomofspeech #dtom #insanity #thisiswhynostr #grownostr #thisistheway #nostrorbust image #politics #uspol
Marty Bent's avatar Marty Bent
“Hate speech” is a made up Marxist euphemism. A dog whistle for aspiring censors. There is no such thing as hate speech. There is only speech that particular people don’t like.
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Dexter 1 year ago
Look I believe in free speech and people’s right to be intolerant. But to say there isn’t hate speech is a bit of a stretch. If I was to wander the streets saying all “insert ethnic group here” must die, I think that fits the definition. Semantics…
That and shouting “fire” in a theater…. But yeah Be sure they don’t make platitudes and blue checks illegal friend. Marxist….hehe
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JD 1 year ago
No. Not like this... not like this. #whowatchesthewatchmen ?
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“Hate speech” is a made up Marxist euphemism. A dog whistle for aspiring censors. There is no such thing as hate speech. There is only speech that particular people don’t like.
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Thoughts appear. Thoughts come seemingly out of nowhere, maybe subconscious? Arguably, thoughts are not chosen, they appear. Thoughts are affected by feelings. Feelings are affected by the surrounding world. Happenings are encountered: scare, anxiousness, winning the lottery - or speech. Again, the surrounding world affects feelings. Speech also does. Speech leads to feeling, feeling leads thought, thought leads to action. Action, call it cause and effect or whatever happens in the world, is important. It should matter. Then the question: what would you then call for example speech that causes people to make others suffer enormously?
That’s how you are supposed to handle these types of situations. I don’t know how old you are but people were tougher 20 years ago.
Governments of the world do not solve major issues (economy, immigration, all these (fake) crisis). Not because they are not able, but because they are the cause. So, governments go ahead and cause more problems, like jailing people for wrong-think. What else is new. We truly live in an Orwellian nightmare.
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Aron 1 year ago
My brain processed "haccp" on that bord at first before reading.
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markonyte 1 year ago
the term "hate speech" is just a tool that the most cunning can capitalize on. What she said can be thought of as hateful yes and on the other hand she would tell you that she is being hated on herself by her own government which is making her have to react and I would have to agree with her.
She broke the law by inciting and encouraging others to burn down hotels housing asylum seekers. Some people actually tried to do so as we saw. That type of speech can quite reasonably be described as "hate speech". All civilised societies have laws which place limits on free speech. That's why we have laws that prohibit incitement to violence and murder.
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markonyte 1 year ago
Thats fine, it is technically incitement to violence i agree and broke the law. This is a rare case that something called hate speech is actually incitement to violence though as most of the time its not. Although like i indicated i can understand how people are getting so frustrated that they feel the need to resort to this kind of extreme behaviour and speech. Working class people get a lot of their joy in life from the simple things like social cohesion, camaraderie, togetherness, identity, familiarity. Their main things in life arent money and power like those few who are making much of the decisions for the country
I think #kamala is right in some part as you are right in some part. I think socialmedia which use algorythms to promote aggressive language, provocation with no other intention then to provoke someone, this does not add to free speech. It rather obligates people to read this in favor of decent more calm language. But you are also right in the way, that hatespeech is defined from the reader and no objective measurement. And to defend democracy, we need to accept critique in all forms and allow bad language. It should rather be critiqued as well and be distrusted by the public instead of censoring it by police.
that's cool but nobody uses it instead of Bitcoin maxis. unless you make the user experience smooth like ice and get the network effect, normies will never ever use it