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Re:Montrealer found guilty of hate against Jews after Daily ... by 3pac on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @08:01AM (#34503044)
What is objective about a law? It still comes down to judgment calls.

First Amendment aside, I fear that restricting speech would result in a backlash from Neo-Nazi types, or worse, a national situation like The Gulag Archipelago describes.

How about teaching to think and write more accurately instead. "I would not have subjected my child to the humiliation of wearing a slave collar and manacles, and then photographing him, and then publishing the photograph. He is clearly shying away from the camera. He appears to be at a critical age developmentally. He may grow to resent this experience rather than learning anything from it."

Sending them back to high school-level English to read Roots and Black Like Me, and then write a paper might work. Framing it that way as a court-mandated punishment does not sound great on its face.

I suspect that some keyboard nazis just need to be exposed to more moderate discourse. However, that will not happen if they silo their discussions in sites like The Daily Stormer.

Re:Montrealer found guilty of hate against Jews after Daily ... by 3pac on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:23PM (#34506773)
HN does not let me edit, but I regret using the even mildly derogatory term "keyboard nazi", lest somebody read it and take it to mean they should prove they are more than that.

Everybody has very common insecurities. The key is to find out what is really bothering these disaffected people (housing, job, normal human relationship and sexual issues, etc.) and address it, rather than allowing blame-shifting and scapegoating to fester.