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Hate speech laws would not proscribe criticizing the President as an individual. They generally proscribe attacking people or groups of people based on protecte
by otterley 7y ago
Hate speech laws would not proscribe criticizing the President as an individual. They generally proscribe attacking people or groups of people based on protected characteristics such as age, gender, race, sexual orientation/presentation, etc.
- frockington1 7y agoBut what if you call the President 'he' and today he wants to go by xi. With a hate speech law you are now a bigot and your work criticizing xi will need to be removed
- ptaipale 7y ago> Hate speech laws would not proscribe criticizing the President as an individual. People often advocate hate speech laws while being under the illusion that they are the ones who get to define what is hate speech and what is not.
- otterley 7y agoThere are lots of thorny First Amendment issues in the U.S. around hate speech anyway. It's unlikely that hate speech itself can be proscribed except where there's a call for imminent lawless action (e.g. rioting, see Brandenburg v. Ohio). Usually where we see it come up is as evidence of a particular malicious intent or hate-based motivation for a violent crime like assault, mayhem, or murder, that increases the sentence applied as a result of a conviction.