RE: Is there free speech in Belfast?
July 17, 2015 at 7:21 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2015 at 7:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The people operating the deathcamps didn't see themselves as murderous bastards either (no more so than I did while plinking away at people who were either so poorly trained or so poorly equipped as to be unable to injure me through my armor when -I- was a soldier). Please, step outside of your own conceptions....this is what I'm asking you to do. Because, for no other reason....the inability to do so is precisely the problem with "hate speech" to begin with. Hate speech is whatever the dominant culture determines it to be. It -was not- hate speech to toe the party line in germany, circa 1941 - but it could be hate speech to do so, today, in the European Union or the US. It -would have been- "hate speech" to criticize the aryan master race, then and there. The authorities in power would not have allowed criticism...they didn't. It would be "inciting violence" to start a revolt in a nazi workcamp - it was-. These are the reasons that even though I think these terms do mean something, that we should care about them, we shouldn;t extend -too much- of the power of law in service -to them-. It not only -can- take a turn for the douche...it does so with regularity.
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