Motherfucker! This is enraging. I can't get past the first sentence, which assumes "hate speech" is a real thing deserving of censorship.
Sorry, but "hate" is a word describing an actual emotional state, it is not a political term. Expressing hate is good, necessary, right, and proper, especially in the political context, and any language you want to use to express that hate is protected by the First Amendment, even "nigger." The fact that the word "nigger" has become taboo in polite and public discourse demonstrates that we can regulate our own speech without state coercion. Social stigma seems to be working just fine, helped along, of course, by self-appointed censors of social media and academic thought police.
The idea behind censorship is that by forcing someone to abandon what a random arbiter considers "hate speech" that hate is purged from the user. If you forbid the use of hateful language the hatred itself will dissipate. It's the stupid idea that language gives birth to thought, not the other way around. One need only ask, "Has the de facto prohibition of 'nigger' ended racist hatred of black people?" "Has the taboo against 'sexist' language converted any anti-feminists?"
In fact, it is rational to hate many things, especially those things that are deliberately causing harm or injustice, which is to say it's OK to hate, despite what a bunch of starry-eyed utopian dreamers believe, and despite these idiots' efforts to carve out that utopia by demonizing and silencing roughly half of the American population.
Fuck them. I HATE the NYT and everything it stands for.
Motherfucker! This is enraging. I can't get past the first sentence, which assumes "hate speech" is a real thing deserving of censorship.
Sorry, but "hate" is a word describing an actual emotional state, it is not a political term. Expressing hate is good, necessary, right, and proper, especially in the political context, and any language you want to use to express that hate is protected by the First Amendment, even "nigger." The fact that the word "nigger" has become taboo in polite and public discourse demonstrates that we can regulate our own speech without state coercion. Social stigma seems to be working just fine, helped along, of course, by self-appointed censors of social media and academic thought police.
The idea behind censorship is that by forcing someone to abandon what a random arbiter considers "hate speech" that hate is purged from the user. If you forbid the use of hateful language the hatred itself will dissipate. It's the stupid idea that language gives birth to thought, not the other way around. One need only ask, "Has the de facto prohibition of 'nigger' ended racist hatred of black people?" "Has the taboo against 'sexist' language converted any anti-feminists?"
In fact, it is rational to hate many things, especially those things that are deliberately causing harm or injustice, which is to say it's OK to hate, despite what a bunch of starry-eyed utopian dreamers believe, and despite these idiots' efforts to carve out that utopia by demonizing and silencing roughly half of the American population.
Fuck them. I HATE the NYT and everything it stands for.