people say hateful things all the time. What makes one hateful comment hate-speech and another acceptable?
If I say the damn Republicans are ruining this country I'd probably be okay. If I said the damn n*****s are ruining this country I'd be spouting hate-speech. What if I said the damn NAACP is ruining this country, am I okay there? I suppose it would depend on the political climate at the time, which I think is a problem.
So the problem to me is that we then have to differentiate between who can be hated upon and who cannot. There simply isn't a just way to do that, imho, so I strongly support allowing people to say whatever stupid thing they want. I've always felt that if we forbid this kind of hate we're really just hiding it. Let's let the idiots expose themselves for who they are and judge them based on their true words and actions.
If I say the damn Republicans are ruining this country I'd probably be okay. If I said the damn n*****s are ruining this country I'd be spouting hate-speech. What if I said the damn NAACP is ruining this country, am I okay there? I suppose it would depend on the political climate at the time, which I think is a problem.
So the problem to me is that we then have to differentiate between who can be hated upon and who cannot. There simply isn't a just way to do that, imho, so I strongly support allowing people to say whatever stupid thing they want. I've always felt that if we forbid this kind of hate we're really just hiding it. Let's let the idiots expose themselves for who they are and judge them based on their true words and actions.
