• @[email protected]
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    98 months ago

    We can get to that, but first we need to start at the beginning: What is hate speech? Would you know it if you heard it?

    • @[email protected]
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      -78 months ago

      Why would we need to start with a definition if we don’t agree the government needs to be making laws about it?

    • NeuromancerOPM
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      -108 months ago

      I don’t believe in the term as you are using it. The freedom of speech is paramount to a free nation.

      We already have laws against speech that compels violence but otherwise people should be free to say what they want.

        • NeuromancerOPM
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          -138 months ago

          opposing hate speech laws

          Just like obscenity. You know it when you hear it.

          • @[email protected]
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            118 months ago

            That problem with that approach is its basically your subjective definition of what’s obscene or hateful. I mean, that’s fine usually. When it comes to laws, though, that affect not just you, it’s important to have a definition of it, or to clearly characterize its elements so that one can argue what hate speech is.

            Naturally, our country doesn’t have a legal definition of it, so, hate speech doesn’t exist legally.

            In contrast, Germany, with its unique history, does have hate speech laws: Section 130 of the German Criminal Code prohibits “Incitement of Masses” (Firefox translated this for me… )

            1. Whoever publicly or in a meeting approves of, denies or downplays an act committed under the rule of National Socialism of the kind indicated section 6 (1) of the Code of Crimes against International Law in a manner suited to causing a disturbance of the public peace incurs a penalty of imprisonment for a term not exceeded five years or a fine.

            This one sounds like something fearful capitalists would implement for Communism lol.

            • NeuromancerOPM
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              -138 months ago

              How do you define it? Germany has laws around their socialist past. Should America have laws against socialism and democrats since that is where the Nazis got their ideas?

              • PizzaMan
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                88 months ago

                There is a fundamental (and probably intentionally) failure of history here.

                Germany was never socialist, nor were the nazis. Just as North Korea is technicallt callee the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” while not being a republic or democratic, the nazis weren’t socialists because they have the word socialism in their official name. Official names can, and in this case are bullshit. There was a socialist movement in Germany, but the nazis co-opted and destroyed socialism. Many of the political prisoners in the holocaust were communists and socialists, taken away because they were communist or socialist.

                Should America have laws against socialism and democrats since that is where the Nazis got their ideas?

                The nazis didn’t get any ideas for socialism. They destroyed the socialist movement, as it was antithetical to their goals.

                But they did learn from the U.S., and how the conservatives in Texas treated immigrants. At the time, they would only allow people of color through if they went through harsh chemical cleaning treatments under the guise of getting rid of lice. The nazis took that idea and ran with it. And nowadays the U.S. treatment of immigrants is not much better thanks to conservatives.

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                58 months ago

                I think I’d define it as inciting hate with the aim of persuading people to actions harmful or offensive to the target group…or something like that.

                Should America have laws against socialism?

                You know what? I wish America would try that. It’ll either result in us becoming aware of socialism actually is and/or it’ll attempt outlaw everything good under the sun like advocating for minimum wage laws, UBI, harm reduction policies, etc, such that it’ll be opposed by almost everybody that isn’t a soulless ghoul.

                • NeuromancerOPM
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                  -98 months ago

                  I think I’d define it as inciting hate with the aim of persuading people to actions harmful or offensive to the target group…or something like that

                  The first part is already illegal. That’s an action. Offensive ? That’s a vague term. People here love to call republicans fascist. That would hit your description of hate speech and would be criminal.

                  If someone refused to use pronouns. That would be illegal.

                  Calling me cisgender would be illegal since I find that offensive.

                  See how quickly this spirals out of control ?

                  German has laws against national socialism, ironically because we forced the laws on them after the war. We were trying to purge nazism.

                  We don’t want speech to be criminalized as we are a country of ideas. You may not like the idea but somebody may not yours. Yet, you bough have the right to have your ideas.