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And how do you define hate speech? Speech that you don’t like? That offends you? It’s an extremely slippery slope until you don’t get to say what you want because someone with more power than you decided it’d be “hate speech”


Did you overlook my last paragraph? See also my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=brazzy#34950806

No, it is really not at all a slippery slope.

Even if you just look at the term, it's pretty damn obvious that it has nothing yo do with "Speech that you don’t like? That offends you?"


If you look at the term, one thing is obvious. If you look at the way it is applied, another thing is obvious.

In general, just looking at terms might give you a very flawed understanding of such things as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.




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