(July 3, 2015 at 11:07 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(July 3, 2015 at 7:37 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Don't get your hopes on, making blasphemy legal does not erase hate speech laws that encompass any characteristic you can incite hate against, like race, gender and also religion. It's like abolishing a law saying you can go to jail for smoke weed while keeping another saying you can go to jail for doing drugs.
Blasphemy is generally much broader than hate speech. Blasphemy can be saying that Jesus was just a man. But that is not hate speech.
You're right, but hate speech is actually broader than blasphemy in many cases - While blasphemy is merely defamation of religions or religious symbols (from my experience those laws frequently apply to the majority's religion only and the rest is ignored) hate speech can encompass pretty much anything from religion, religious symbols, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability/body ability, age, etc - It is a broad concept, anything fits into it. Saying "Religions are not peaceful" could be classified as hate speech in some countries and it wouldn't surprise me, or like it happened in france saying that black people are "monkeys".
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