Trump supporter calls Black high school kids "f*cking n*iggers"

[Cuddles]

I never said that.

I said that your argument that banning hate speech must put us on a slippery slope, is false.

I also said that The people, in a democracy, via their representatives, can determine what hate speech is. That's how a democracy works...for better or worse. Democracy is the will of the people, not the will to do what is good, or what you or I think is good.

Hate speech/racial slurs, our topic, is bipartisan. Banning hate speech wont politically suppress D's or R's.

I argued that if the people banned hate speech, it doesn't necessarily follow that the democracy is over. The democracy is what we say it is.

I argued that we don't need a 'slippery slope' to go south. My example was the transition from Obama to Trump. There was no slope. It was instant.

I finally provided evidence that the notion of "slippery slopes" is a logical fallacy.

thankfully in our democracy the majority is against suppressing any kind of speech (including hate speech). Good exercise in hypotheticals though.

 

[userque]

Good exercise in hypotheticals though

All debate is hypothetical.

Again, hate speech is already suppressed in the workplace, and during the commission of crimes.

It is only the belief in mythical slippery slopes that prevents it from being banned outright, as it is in Canada, for example.

We've come a long way from slave labor. Eventually, we'll see that there is no civil place for hate speech. We'll see that allowing hate speech, doesn't somehow, protect democracy.

The people can decide to stop hate speech, and they can later decide to bring it back. The people decide future laws; the laws themselves don't decide future laws.

 

[userque]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_the_United_Kingdom

 

[userque]

All these countries putting themselves in danger by banning hate speech:

 

[userque]

 

[userque]

 

[userque]

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And what does the most powerful nation on the planet have to say?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_by_country

I rest.

 

[userque]

And what does the most powerful nation on the planet have to say?

I wonder why? Slippery slope? LOL ... yeah ... that's the real reason.

Now I rest.

 

[Overnight]

I wonder why? Slippery slope? LOL ... yeah ... that's the real reason.

Now I rest.

So Malcolm X was advocating for protests? What a peaceful man. Like Trump.

"Run amok."

 

[userque]

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