[drnonsense42]

You’re proving my point. “Hate speech” is defined by a very small group of nerds, who are in the 4th sd of privilege with white liberal jesus syndrome and who’ve spent most of their lives on computers or on vacation posting about how oppressed their lives are by christianity or patriarchy or some other malarkey. In other words, free speech is a better alternative to the people making decisions having god complexes while being completely detached from most of the rest of humanity.

[rnk]

There is such a thing as hateful speech. The people who yelled the n word at football games at the opposing team when I was in college, that's just ok with you? No issue? Abhorrent maybe? My semi-integrated high school had a semi-racist 'school song' too, sung before every game or pep rally.

I'm from the deep south, perhaps you are too, but there is definitely a thing known as hate speech, and there's definitely a thing where the leaders of a town are happy to keep black people down, including using derogatory words. Their speech reflects their views on life. I disagree that we are improved as a society for them being able to make such comments in the public sphere.

[drnonsense42]

If that were in any way even remotely representative of what is being defined as hate speech and weaponized, you might have a point. Tangentially, I’ve noticed a few occasions where rule enforcement for racial slurs seem to get bent quite often for the right democrats. Hard to trust the gavel-wielding infant cabal when there are multiple sets of rules. This is why free speech exists, so the bad apples in California don’t poison the rest of the tree.