Except that the issue isn't someone's right to be an asshole. I addressed that in the OP.
But that's not an exclusive definition of hate speech. I must have missed that part of the OP, but the original story contained many examples of "hate speech" that contained no threats of violence .. but the article still subtly decried and criticised them under the same umbrella. I'll limit the concept of hate speech to threats when hate speech legislation (and proposed legilslation) does.
Violence is violence. Threats are threats. To attach greater penalty to violence or threats motivated by particular ideologies is to criminalize the ideology in addition to the violence or threat.
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Date: 2006-04-11 09:32 pm (UTC)But that's not an exclusive definition of hate speech. I must have missed that part of the OP, but the original story contained many examples of "hate speech" that contained no threats of violence .. but the article still subtly decried and criticised them under the same umbrella. I'll limit the concept of hate speech to threats when hate speech legislation (and proposed legilslation) does.
Violence is violence. Threats are threats. To attach greater penalty to violence or threats motivated by particular ideologies is to criminalize the ideology in addition to the violence or threat.