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<\/p>\nAn idjit from Britain, where real free speech does not exist, whines about how “hate speech” isn’t really free speech.<\/p>\n
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So-called “hate speech” is still <\/em>free speech.\u00a0 The so-called “rights” to “dignity” or “respect” would mandate that the state be used to force people to act, indirectly to eventually think, what the state finds acceptable.<\/p>\n “Hate speech,” then is simply speech that the state deems to be wrong.\u00a0 By labeling it “hate speech” and declaring that it is not “free speech”\u2026 presumably because people are free to say what the state allows them to say.<\/p>\n Speech, furthermore, is not violence against vulnerable minority groups<\/em>.”\u00a0 Speech only crosses the line to violence when it is used as fighting words or an explicit incitement to violence.\u00a0 In other words, there must be actual harm directly caused by the speech in question.<\/p>\n But individuals such as that Brit twit seem to believe that speech that might influence people to think incorrect thoughts ought<\/em> to be banned by the state because the state deems that such incorrect thinking might<\/em> led to violence.\u00a0 By that measure, couldn’t we ban Marxist texts, the teaching of Critical Theory, or Justin Bieber?<\/p>\n The root of the misconstruction by this Brit twit is the idea that the “true purpose of freedom of speech is to allow citizens to criticise their government.”\u00a0 Yet bans on “hate speech” have been used to do just that<\/a>.<\/p>\n The purpose of freedom of speech isn’t <\/em>criticism of the government or for “democracy.”\u00a0 Free speech has no purpose<\/em> at all.\u00a0 It is the purpose of the state and democracy<\/em> to defend out inalienable freedom of speech.\u00a0 Limitations are, and ought to be, rare, and then only restricted amongst adults when it causes direct and measurable harm.<\/p>\n Anything else is not<\/em> free speech.<\/p>\n Hat Tip<\/strong>: Moon Metropolis<\/a>.<\/p>\n Addendum<\/strong>: Michael Walsh, over at the PJ Tatler<\/a>, points out a similar attack on free speech in the name of saving “free speech” by banning “hate speech” – which is defined by the Left for their own self-serving purpose. It is well worth reading, though it is suggested that you take any blood-pressure medication you may have beforehand.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An idjit from Britain, where real free speech does not exist, whines about how “hate speech” isn’t really free speech. So-called “hate speech” is still free speech.\u00a0 The so-called “rights” to “dignity” or “respect” would mandate that the state be … Continue reading