This totalitarian campaign against "hate" is a campaign against a human emotion. You might as well ban comments that express love or envy or fear. It's so subjectively general as to be transparently political.
The concept of "hate speech" was invented as a pretext for silencing dissent, obviously. And "hate crime" is thought crime. It's no accident that accusations of hate speech or hate crime always go from left to right. The seething hatred of anything wholesome normal or commonsense is evident in all leftist forums and at all leftist demonstrations. Their hypocrisy is the ultimate hate generator.
And where does all this leave one who hates everybody equally?
This totalitarian campaign against "hate" is a campaign against a human emotion. You might as well ban comments that express love or envy or fear. It's so subjectively general as to be transparently political.
The concept of "hate speech" was invented as a pretext for silencing dissent, obviously. And "hate crime" is thought crime. It's no accident that accusations of hate speech or hate crime always go from left to right. The seething hatred of anything wholesome normal or commonsense is evident in all leftist forums and at all leftist demonstrations. Their hypocrisy is the ultimate hate generator.
And where does all this leave one who hates everybody equally?
Plus, the thing they call 'hate' is actually just common sense.
At least then they'd be doing something useful. They'd also be banning Communists, which is never a bad idea when trying to promote a decent platform.