(February 11, 2021 at 11:44 am)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: I am against allowing inciting violence, where people call for violence, and I've said that all along. I am in favour of allowing incitement of hatred, because they are just expressing their views.
The various Canadian provincial human-rights provisions have been a nightmare for free speech. They not only protected against hatred, but also against offense. Promoting hatred has to be a high bar, because one must always be able to criticize the ideas of a religion or culture. Otherwise, everyone in this forum is guilty of hate speech for criticizing religions and their leaders.
I think the problems have been cleaned up some, but the "offense" provision in the human-rights codes were an abomination. No-one has the human right to have the world protect them from being offended.