<< Would you want to hang out in an IRC channel where any time you talk someone says, "shut up woman, get back to the kitchen?" You, an individual who does not

<< Would you want to hang out in an IRC channel where any time you talk someone says, "shut up woman, get back to the kitchen?" You, an individual who does not want to see this can set ignore on that someone. << logically consistent because I see hate speech as an act that restricts others' speech. It is consistent if you accept the logic leap made to assume restriction on speech somehow enhances it. Personally, I am not convinced, because I think you confuse safety ( or mental comfort ) with freedom. Maybe the word freedom has become too overloaded with meaning in English language. Maybe we should use something else: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" Also, as a very practical measure, even if we do assume that hate speech actually does what it is supposed to do ( identify hate and remove hateful content ), do you really think it is smart to hide it from public view? And we did not even touch that 'hate speech' has recently come, not unlike nazis' to mean 'anything I don't like'.