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Re:Journalists Are Reporting Their Colleagues to HR for Poli... by major505 on Monday May 13, 2019 @01:09PM (#19901342)
This is the main problem when you consider free speech as "hate speech". I had to hear a sermon from my young brother who is 15, that something I said was "hate speech" (basically an opnion on abortion if I`m not mistaken), something he learned in school.

I had to explain to him to no avail that theres not such a thing. There is only speech, and or is totally free, or is not free at all.

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Re:Journalists Are Reporting Their Colleagues to HR for Poli... by LostJourneyman on Monday May 13, 2019 @01:46PM (#19901751)
Free speech means that you won't be prosecuted/persecuted by the government, not that you're free from social or societal ramifications. Hate speech is one of the exclusions (see Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire decision, ca. 1942) of Free Speech, but again: no legal action is being taken here so this is irrelevant.
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