Hate speech should be allowed to a point. I do think that free speech should be allowed, but as soon as violence or threats are condoned, it should be stopped.
@9FJSRV92yrs2Y
We are all entitled to safety and security within the country we live in to the fullest degree it can be provided. Hate speech is a form of weaponized language shared with the sole intent of ostracizing, othering, and ultimately harming specific groups of people based on nothing more than generalizations, which not only is entirely separate from criticisms of individuals due to their individual traits but is also a direct path to the evocation and justification of violence.
@9GMSTQF1yr1Y
Limit cases are real. There are speech acts which, in a scenario where hate speech is restricted, do not seem to fit neatly into either the "hateful" or "free" categories. Decisions on what to do about them has historically come down to the caprices of the censors. Given that nobody has ever been able to come up with a framework in which this problem does not arise, the act of censoring hate speech necessarily restricts speech that is ambiguous, and so creates a problem separate from the one it is trying to solve.
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