Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws?

• Solumbran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I said a democratic process, not a majority vote. To protect minorities you need laws that protect minorities and individual rights, freedom of speech is secondary, and actually often contradicting with the first part of my sentence.

  It’s no mystery why the ones throwing “freedom of speech” all day long in all conversations are the nazis. If freedom of speech is king, then hate speech is tolerated. What needs to be of the utmost importance is the respect of individuals, and freedom of speech becomes a consequence of that.

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  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How can minorities exist if they don’t have the freedom to express their minority opinions even if they’re 'hateful" to others? It sounds like only sanctioned minorities would be protected under your system, which makes no sense.

    What about hating billionaires, I expect you would think that 'hate speech " is fine?

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    • Solumbran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If individuals are respected, then their minority opinions will be fine as long as they are not breaking the rule of not blocking other’s freedoms.

      Billionaires are in many way hostile to society as a whole, and destroy the freedom of most people, by choice. Nothing forces them to do it, they aren’t born that way or whatever else, and they are breaking the rule of respecting other’s freedom; as such hating on billionaires is not hate speech, because they broke the rule first and are doing it willingly and with complete choice over the matter.

      But you’re right, there shouldn’t be hate speech against billionaires, because they shouldn’t be allowed to exist.

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      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Hahaha, oh, yes, compare an ideal system to reality.

        Sheesh

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