“Hate Speech” has become a real issue over the last four years, with NOTHING protecting women, and in fact, women’s rights have been grossly curtailed under Biden. Whilst it is prosecutable to say the “N” word for Black people, and the “F” word for gay people, it is not considered hate speech to call a woman a “B” word or worse, a “C” word. Whilst we all know this is hate speech, the Biden administration has made it culturally acceptable to undermine the respect and rights for dignity of women. I propose we make these words classified as official Hate Speech.
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Many words that are now insults are previously inoffensive nouns; i.e. “bitch” being the historic word for a female dog. The older usage of the word has declined in popularity, but that doesn’t retroactively change literature. In books, you will still encounter “queer” as a word that means “strange” or “odd,” and “gay” still exclusively means “happy” or “merry” in Christmas songs.
Ultimately, many words can become insults. For instance, even the word “niggard” (which means stingy) is sometimes regarded as uniquely insulting due to its proximity pronunciation to another word that doesn’t mean “stingy.” “Niggard” isn’t technically any more offensive than any other word for stingy or miserly.
Policing language is something that you should generally give up on. The desire to police language is also embarrassing, and I have always found that it correlates with illiteracy. Obviously the current literacy rates show that the Department of Education failed the U.S., and that’s the bigger story here.
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Basically let’s take away people’s freedom to speech. Maybe instead just provide counseling for people who are too emotionally stunted that a simple word like bitch offends them.
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You clearly have not been targeted by a woman-hating member of the LGBTQ community who throws “stupid cunt” around like it’s a compliment, whilst also trying to bait others into using hateful language.
Whilst I generally agree policing language is not a great idea, the fact that this site allows it and encourages “kindness” is code for buying into the gross policing of it, whilst simultaneously allowing people to use misogynistic language against women. So whilst I agree to a point, I disagree with your assessment. It has nothing to do with education; it has eveything to do with politics.
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You’re not a woman. You have not had your basic rights to privacy and dignity removed. So you can go get on your judgey soapbox elsewhere, buddy.
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Being that I was in the military, I have absolutely been called very bad things. Must worse than your little b word. So, no. I will not.
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Now you see what you sound like. Full circle. Great job little buddy.
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I would add that I can agree with you to rid Hate Speech of the names I mention here, but it must be done across the board to exclude all derogatory names for all groups. This I agree.
Otherwise, if we are to police language under the false notions of “kindness,” - because the world is unkind and unforgiving including during interpersonal arguments when someone lets temperament get the best of them- then we should include derogatory names aimed at women. Otherwise we should rid all Hate Speech as being unlawful and rid all names for all groups as Hate Speech, going under the previous moniker of “free speech.”
It is unjust for a gay man to call me in a threatening tone “stupid fucking cunt,” and have no repercussions whilst if I say “dumb faggot” I can be arrested.
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The irony is too thick here. The exact thing that you are proposing, is what you are doing. You calling me a wussy doesn’t offend me but if this bill was to pass and I was to decide otherwise you would be arrested for that. And no, being called any of those things would not bother me at all. My emotional state is not contingent on words that people use. If those kind of words offend you, your emotional intelligence is severely lacking. Maybe another year or two with your therapist, which you obviously have, will help.
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Free speech is just that. With very few exceptions (fire in a crowded theatre) it should be left alone. No restrictions were placed on free speech in the first amendment. Without a constitutional amendment saying otherwise that should stand. Personally i would rather put up with some speech i dislike rather than live in an Orwellian censored society. Once it begins, where does it end?
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Do you have evidence of a law or an incident where someone was arrested for saying something like “dumb faggot”? I am surprised that there is a law against such free speech, if it exists.
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Obviously hate speech laws in general are a joke to serious people; especially because they are always subjectively applied and not only is “hate” a regular human emotion, but banning an emotion is comical if it wasn’t so bizarre. Humans will always have neural capacity for hate; and there are philosophical, rational, and just reasons to feel it. The idea that it’s categorically inexpressible because the general public can’t handle an articulation of feeling doesn’t come close to making any kind of sense.
And then with the “n” word, which is a uniquely anglosphere phenomenon to have such a problem with a word that it can’t even be stated in quotations for academic purposes (which is, frankly, a premise that most people in the rest of the world cannot relate to—in other languages, you can always say any word with neutral intent). The fact that it can be said in rap songs and colloquially, but not even academically, involves a two-tiered justice system that is unsustainable and highly corruptible on any given timeline.
Nearly all hate speech laws obviously have to go away. Threats of violence and certain actionable things might be different, but in general, banning the expression of emotions is not something that makes any kind of sense. Ask a psychiatrist if suppression is better than expression. Sometimes hate means a conversation needs to happen.
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What rights have you lost?
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Quite the opposite, we should be doing away with officially recognizing ‘Hate Speech’ all together.
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Yes. In Scotland they have arrested people for sharing memes about trans issues. Here in NYC if you call someone a N or a F you get arrested for common hate crime. But not if you call a woman a C or a B.
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That’s because NYC is deranged and un-enviable.
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Yes! Precisely!!!
So either the speech is policed across the board, or it is not.
Here is an arrest made by an anti-Israel protester who is charged with threatening a Jewish person in NYC. Also, the hate crime charges extends to Daniel Penny, who is charged with a hate crime simply for protecting the public. So NYC has a vested interest in subjugating certain groups whilst allowing the hate speech and hate crimes (like beating white women and Jewish people without recourse). This is the state of free speech now.
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Two words for you about hate crimes in NY and NJ:
Daniel Penny.
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