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“Hate Speech” is going to become a catchall for authoritarian regimes, just as “terrorism” did post 9/11. It’s instructive to examine how the USA’s use of terro
by mmaunder 4y ago
“Hate Speech” is going to become a catchall for authoritarian regimes, just as “terrorism” did post 9/11. It’s instructive to examine how the USA’s use of terrorism to pursue, first the perpetrators of 9/11, and then whoever we felt like, gave permission for the world to do the same. Note how Putin describes Ukraine as filled with terrorists.
- akira2501 4y ago"Terrorism" was the justification to allow US forces to torture detainees. It's not just the people they go after, it's the structural changes they justify.
- EarlKing 4y agoI hate to interrupt your regularly scheduled dose of anti-Americanism, but "Hate Speech" was being punished across Europe long before the "War on Terror" began in the United States. Europeans did not, and do not, need prompting from the United States to act like fascists. All tyrants invariably seize upon whatever pretext is available to them to engage in plausibly-deniable acts of tyranny.