>Should we stop hate speech? What makes you think we can? Can we even define hate speech? If you think that you're going to eliminate discrimination or racism

>Should we stop hate speech? What makes you think we can? Can we even define hate speech? If you think that you're going to eliminate discrimination or racism through banning speech by calling it 'hate speech' you're wrong. When you ban 'hate speech' what gets banned is speech that the people in power hate. In other words you're not stopping Nazis and people calling for genocide. That basically never happens. Instead those in political power use the hate speech laws to crush political activists and journalists. Here is Canada for example, hate speech laws have been used against many comedians. Journalists quite often. Book authors even, there are examples where RCMP arrest and jail book authors because their book was critical of the government. No racism or threats of violence. No charges are ever filed and the book stays in publication.