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by pessimizer 1752 days ago
How “Hate Crimes Against Police” Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime Statutes

https://truthout.org/articles/how-hate-crimes-against-police...

Offenses Against Police Could Be Hate Crime

https://www.post-journal.com/news/page-one/2020/09/offenses-...

If you squint enough, lése-majesté starts to look like hate crime legislation. Paul Kagame maintains his dictatorship on a foundation of hate speech and genocide denial accusations.

When the enemy is an abstraction like "hate" there's no way to create a bright line between it and "disagreement" or "opposition." Are you publicly condemning a politician's behavior, or are you inciting hate against him?