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> This is where human rights law and anti-hate speech law comes from. How many genocides did the latter ever prevent? If anything, they'll make genocides much
by thriftwy 9y ago
> This is where human rights law and anti-hate speech law comes from.
How many genocides did the latter ever prevent? If anything, they'll make genocides much more sudden. You can bully the majority into submission but it's going to backfire.
Regarding human rights, I just don't see them working in the century of XXI.
- pjc50 9y ago> How many genocides did the latter ever prevent Ah, an impossible-to-prove counterfactual. Better to ask what role hate speech has played in making genoicdes happen, such as in Rwanda (and arguably Myanmar)