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To me, the very concept of "hate speech" seems Orwellian.
by csense 10y ago
To me, the very concept of "hate speech" seems Orwellian.
- maxerickson 10y agoHow so? Some of the time it will naturally arise by combining an adjective with a noun. I mean, there really are people out there communicating their hate for other people. As a legal concept it is clearly more fraught.
- 1_2__3 10y agoPresumably the legal concept is what he was referring to.
- maxerickson 10y agoI made my comment because the very concept of made me skeptical of that. "The very concept" is a different meaning than "the legal concept".
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