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> "There is no solution to the problem" Sure there is - it's just that the solution isn't very palatable to people who support the first amendment. You make ha
by objclxt 14y ago
> "There is no solution to the problem"
Sure there is - it's just that the solution isn't very palatable to people who support the first amendment. You make hate speech illegal. If, for example, the Westboro Baptist Church were to visit the UK and picket a funeral with the same language as they do in the US they'd quickly be arrested (although it's all hypothetical, because church members are already banned from entering the UK for extremism).
- protomyth 14y agoI would rather deal with the weirdos than pass speech restriction laws.
- ahelwer 14y agoHas hate speech ever affected you? Does it even have the potential to?
- protomyth 14y agoUh yep, it has had the potential to affect me. Grew up on a reservation as a white biological child of a native american (blood quotas) of a different tribe than the reservation. So, yeah. Despite a certain websites cute version "wasicu" really does have a pretty bad meaning. Having said that, my opinion is no less valid than if my Dad had not decided to move us from the west coast at a young age. Either you commit and actual crime or we are legislating mind control and weird interpretations of words. Given the "code words" discussions that came up in the 2012 election, I am pretty sure the Cardinal De Richelieu[1] would be right at home prosecuting hate speech. 1) "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."