I don't think free speech can be so nuanced and not become a mess of power abuse. I am a free speech absolutist. "Hate speech" as a concept was always flawed and dangerous. It was THE mistake. Hate is an emotion. Speech is an action. Nobody can read the emotions of others, and there should never be a justification for prosecution …
I don't think free speech can be so nuanced and not become a mess of power abuse. I am a free speech absolutist. "Hate speech" as a concept was always flawed and dangerous. It was THE mistake. Hate is an emotion. Speech is an action. Nobody can read the emotions of others, and there should never be a justification for prosecution of people based on the assumption or projection of an emotion. All that should matter are actions, and if those actions cause MATERIAL harm. Psychological discomfort is NOT material harm.
Material harm should be the one and only benchmark. My words might sting. And that sting might be justified, or not... but it is never a right of someone to silence or persecute me because my words sting them. Now, if I glue myself to the road in protest over a climate change hoax, and that action prevents people from traveling to their school, place of business, doctor appointment, etc... well then THAT is speech that causes material harm and should be persecuted for the harm it causes.
Persecute for the material harm, not the speech.
"Material" is a legal and business term. It is subjective in that two people can have a different opinion about the line. However, there is a line... and that is the key. Today there is no line... everything can be claimed to be "hate speech".
What has happened is that by allowing in this concept of "hate speech" we have empowered Karens, crybullies and political charlatans to exploit it for their own power and greed pursuits. And within that cabal of terrible actors are the teachers unions... a radical 3rd wave feminist Marxist hive having been executing a plan for decades to brainwash every K-12 student with the toxic Critical Theory fake scholarship so that these little bots of destruction would go out into the world and create the social chaos needed to secure a cultural revolution to transform America into yet another failed collectivist hell hole.
Canceling conservative voices was always going to be a necessary step for that plan to succeed. Idiot virtue signaling Republicans (Mitt Romney types) failed to fight back when the left began pushing this concept of hate speech... when it was Republicans that freed slaves and passed Civil Rights legislation. What the dolts on the right failed to recognize is that the left was basically laying the groundwork for a form of neoracism. Woke is their manifestation of that. Racism as practiced is simply defined as attempts at tribal dominance by denigrating and discriminating against other tribes that pose a competitive threat. Today the left has adopted the woke ideology because it empowers them to be biased against an entire class of people that they compete with for social and economic dominance. This was always the plan of the radical left... and we all fell into it.
The remedy is civil rights 2.0... a new day where people are judged 100% on demonstrated character, behavior and ability and not anything else... and that free speech is absolute.
Every time I get fed up enough with sanctimonious woke gospel that I contemplate voting right to give it an overdue pushback, up comes someone with conspiracy theory sea sponge between their ears to make me change my mind.
Thank you my friend. I will strive to keep in mind that the antidote to the revolution is not the restoration, but sensible centrism.
I don't think free speech can be so nuanced and not become a mess of power abuse. I am a free speech absolutist. "Hate speech" as a concept was always flawed and dangerous. It was THE mistake. Hate is an emotion. Speech is an action. Nobody can read the emotions of others, and there should never be a justification for prosecution of people based on the assumption or projection of an emotion. All that should matter are actions, and if those actions cause MATERIAL harm. Psychological discomfort is NOT material harm.
Material harm should be the one and only benchmark. My words might sting. And that sting might be justified, or not... but it is never a right of someone to silence or persecute me because my words sting them. Now, if I glue myself to the road in protest over a climate change hoax, and that action prevents people from traveling to their school, place of business, doctor appointment, etc... well then THAT is speech that causes material harm and should be persecuted for the harm it causes.
Persecute for the material harm, not the speech.
"Material" is a legal and business term. It is subjective in that two people can have a different opinion about the line. However, there is a line... and that is the key. Today there is no line... everything can be claimed to be "hate speech".
What has happened is that by allowing in this concept of "hate speech" we have empowered Karens, crybullies and political charlatans to exploit it for their own power and greed pursuits. And within that cabal of terrible actors are the teachers unions... a radical 3rd wave feminist Marxist hive having been executing a plan for decades to brainwash every K-12 student with the toxic Critical Theory fake scholarship so that these little bots of destruction would go out into the world and create the social chaos needed to secure a cultural revolution to transform America into yet another failed collectivist hell hole.
Canceling conservative voices was always going to be a necessary step for that plan to succeed. Idiot virtue signaling Republicans (Mitt Romney types) failed to fight back when the left began pushing this concept of hate speech... when it was Republicans that freed slaves and passed Civil Rights legislation. What the dolts on the right failed to recognize is that the left was basically laying the groundwork for a form of neoracism. Woke is their manifestation of that. Racism as practiced is simply defined as attempts at tribal dominance by denigrating and discriminating against other tribes that pose a competitive threat. Today the left has adopted the woke ideology because it empowers them to be biased against an entire class of people that they compete with for social and economic dominance. This was always the plan of the radical left... and we all fell into it.
The remedy is civil rights 2.0... a new day where people are judged 100% on demonstrated character, behavior and ability and not anything else... and that free speech is absolute.
Every time I get fed up enough with sanctimonious woke gospel that I contemplate voting right to give it an overdue pushback, up comes someone with conspiracy theory sea sponge between their ears to make me change my mind.
Thank you my friend. I will strive to keep in mind that the antidote to the revolution is not the restoration, but sensible centrism.