I Disapprove of What You Say but I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It

Re:I Disapprove of What You Say but I Will Defend to the Dea... by nxm on Sunday February 26, 2023 @06:42PM (#34951007)

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”

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Re:I Disapprove of What You Say but I Will Defend to the Dea... by brazzy on Sunday February 26, 2023 @06:53PM (#34951111)

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?"

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Re:I Disapprove of What You Say but I Will Defend to the Dea... by qu4z-2 on Sunday February 26, 2023 @08:34PM (#34951910)

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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