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Why progressives want hate speech laws in America

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Just what constitutes so-called "hate speech" is extremely subjective, which allows the state to pick and choose who to criminalize. Observe what's going on in Bernie's and Noam Chomsky's favorite country:



SAN JOSE DE GUANIPA, Venezuela, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Francisco Belisario, a Venezuelan mayor, retired general and member of the ruling Socialist party, had enough. His loudest local critic had accused him of bungling the response to the coronavirus outbreak and other big problems.

In August, he wrote a state prosecutor and requested an "exhaustive investigation" of his nemesis, Giovanni Urbaneja, a former lawmaker who had become a gadfly to the mayor and other Socialist officeholders. Urbaneja, Belisario wrote in a letter reviewed by Reuters, was conducting a "ferocious smear campaign" on Facebook and elsewhere.

Urbaneja not only defamed him and President Nicolas Maduro, the mayor wrote. He violated Venezuela's Law Against Hate. The law, passed in 2017 but rarely used before this year, criminalizes actions that "incite hatred" against a person or group.

Charge Urbaneja with hate crimes, the mayor implored the prosecutor.

Days later, several dozen masked officers raided Urbaneja's home and took him at gunpoint for "a chat," according to the police report of his arrest and Urbaneja's wife. Urbaneja remains jailed, awaiting formal charges and a trial.

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It was an increasingly common maneuver: In a review of more than 40 recent hate-law arrests, Reuters found that in each case, authorities intervened against Venezuelans who had criticized Maduro, other ruling party officials or their allies.

The political left has always been extremely hostile to free speech. Hate speech laws are a progressive wet dream because any sort of criticism can be classified as "hate speech".
 
One of the worst things we can do is go down the road of government determination of hate speech, it will get politically weaponized just as everything else they have their hands on.
 
Just what constitutes so-called "hate speech" is extremely subjective, which allows the state to pick and choose who to criminalize. Observe what's going on in Bernie's and Noam Chomsky's favorite country:





The political left has always been extremely hostile to free speech. Hate speech laws are a progressive wet dream because any sort of criticism can be classified as "hate speech".

We only have to observe Donald Trump’s country: ya’ll want the government to control the internet so people on Twitter stop making mean hashtags trend. IT’s Republicans demanding intellectual and verbal safe spaces. “I want to say the nword but people won’t let me!” is usually the cry.
 
Just what constitutes so-called "hate speech" is extremely subjective, which allows the state to pick and choose who to criminalize. Observe what's going on in Bernie's and Noam Chomsky's favorite country:





The political left has always been extremely hostile to free speech. Hate speech laws are a progressive wet dream because any sort of criticism can be classified as "hate speech".

^ A person with an overtly sexist username posts about an issue in another country, claims that it will happen here, and demands to be taken seriously. :LOL:
 
The right wing should live in shame, for requiring this debate. Their disgusting demeanor makes SOME response necessary.
 
Just what constitutes so-called "hate speech" is extremely subjective, which allows the state to pick and choose who to criminalize. Observe what's going on in Bernie's and Noam Chomsky's favorite country:





The political left has always been extremely hostile to free speech. Hate speech laws are a progressive wet dream because any sort of criticism can be classified as "hate speech".

Yeah... I'd really rather not go down the path of the modern (largely dystopian) UK here, with police wasting their time arresting middle class moms for "mean comments on the internet," while utterly ignoring active rape gangs in the streets because it might be viewed as "racially insensitive" to make a fuss.

The 1st Amendment exists for a reason, just like the 2nd.
 
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