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So what exactly is the alternative? Pass hate speech laws? Because that is ripe for abuse.
Some countries already have hate speech laws that are limited to inciting violence and they aren't being abused.
That is an inciting violence law.
Name one.
Germany
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/11/un-human-rights-committee-criticizes-germanys-netzdg-letting-social-media
Try again
That is not saying that Germany is abusing the law, just that they have an ineffective implementation that shitty countries could use as an excuse to enact their own abusive practices.
you can't bring facts and actually reading their source to the discussion, you are supposed to just agree!
Here's the thing, I agree that hate speech is bad. But then I look at countries like China and think "I like having freedom of speech".
How about when a republican gets in office, and he gets to define hate speech?
God I'm so tired the wannabe tyrants on lemmy. Y'all do realize you'd wouldn't be in the party, right? At best you'd be ignored and working in some sweatshop, and worst you'd be against the wall.
And don't think I didn't notice the casual white washing of Nazis, you anti-Semite.
Don't worry, I'm more than willing to just go.
The United States. Speech that is used to incite violence, commit fraud, or is perceived to be a true threat are not protected under the first amendment.
And it is almost impossible to break that law.
I don’t know about that. I think the more appropriate stance is that it’s almost impossible to have people appropriately prosecuted when they do violate the law. Federal courts are afraid to be the court that starts the chain reaction of more appropriately defining how violation of the law and prosecution should work.
Canada.
I said ripe for abuse, not that they will be abused. In any case, I haven't heard of country with hate speech laws that hasn't been abused in some form. Even in America, we don't have those laws, but that hasn't stopped the government from trying.
We don’t have those laws in the form of legislation necessarily in the US but we do have bars on what is covered by the first amendment according to case law.
By your logic we should get rid of traffic laws because we know they are abused.
You realize such laws have existed in most countries for a very long time, right?
Hate speech is illegal in most of the modern world, and has been for quite some time.
The US had similar hate-speech rules to that of the rest of Europe, until the US civil rights era presented the court the opportunity to decide whether Martin Luther King's anti-racism speech was, as charged, "hate speech".
Long story short, the court decided that it couldn't define what 'hate speech' was and so decided that it shouldn't be against the law (or that the First should protect it). That's why Nazis are allowed to march and have their rallies protected by the First Amendment, all because southern US states wanted to charge the speakers of anti-white-supremacy with 'hate speech' and that was a quick-and-dirty way to disarm them.
Yeah, they used to be called Blasphemy laws. Still doesn't make it excusable.
I have no idea what you are talking about, to be honest. Never heard of those.
But Blasphemy is extremely different from Hate. Canada, for example, goes into explicit legal detail on what counts as Hate and constitutes a Hate Crime.
And Blasphemy has nothing to do with that discussion, nor have I ever heard of this concept, so either you are talking about something else entirely, or perhaps you have to link to what you are talking about?
When I look the term "Blasphemy Laws" up, it brings up something that has nothing to do with Hate Crimes. Did you perhaps use the wrong term?
Throwaway's thing seems to be making shallow bad rightwing takes and backing them up with nothing of substance. I don't think they are engaging genuinely.
So most conservatives when pressed on any of their beliefs.
Pakistan has a one of the more remarkably bad histories with blasphemy laws, if you're looking for examples. I think they're not uncommon in Muslim majority countries. Western nations had similar laws as well, but I think you have to go back a couple centuries to find them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_in_Pakistan
Apples and fuckin oranges my guy.
Yes I know what that Blasphemy Law is.
But the thing is the person I responded to seemed to be talking about some other one, because we are talking about Anti-Hate speech laws, which is definitely not what you just linked to lol
Boiled down, theyre laws against arbritary speech. Sure they might define it, but those definitions always leave enough wiggle room to abuse.
by that logic, all laws should be abolished because all laws can be used for abuse.
If its either an easily abusable law or no law, Id rather no law.
you know drug laws are easily and constantly abused in America? so you would rather we have dealers selling cocaine to gradeschoolers.
seems legit.
there is nothing like a law that can't be abused, but you huffed too much libertarian glue in the US.
No... one is a law against speech against a large entity of power that holds control of the nation.
The other is a law against speech against fellow specific individuals.
If you are seriously trying to equate "I don't like (religion)" with "I think (group of people) deserve to die", then you are on the wrong side of history mate.
That would be a very bad take and I hope to hell and back again you are smart enough to see the difference between those two.
Punch Nazis is a good start.
And by that I mean be socially intolerant of intolerance. Personal morals and actions don't need to and shouldn't be held to the same standard as the US Federal government.
Individuals do have more freedom to discriminate and show "social intolerance", but that obviously doesn't extend to punching people they disagree with. Or violent responses in general.
I'm not morally obligated to debate someone arguing in favor of genocide, for instance. Is it legally assault to punch them, sure. Would I want the government to come in and boot stomp them, probably not. Is punching them morally wrong, nope.
The morals of your actions are for you to decide. It's your conscience. However, if you punched someone over what they said they would be perfectly justified both in defending themselves against your aggression and in punching you right back. At that point you would have no objective rational argument that their defense or retribution was wrong which would not similarly condemn your own actions. You're the one who chose to escalate to violence, not them.
At least then they're busy fighting me and not furthering the cause of horrific systematic injustices against those that can't defend themselves.
You're right. There's nothing that can be done. Racial slurs and regressive language should be taught in schools because you can't fathom a world that has a slight amount of respect based regulation.
Not have those laws is also abusable
Not as easily by the government
abuse by governemnt, neglect by government. The problems can happen either way but with a change in law at least there is attempt to make it better.
Neglect by the government is a good thing. I think we disagree on a fundemental level.
Sounds like they have some level of knowledge of history and have remotely thought their views through yes.