In my opinion hate speech is anything you want it to be, it is a relative term and a tool of censorship and suppression of freedom of speech and any opposing point of view. Hate speech can be anything you want it to be and as such is a very popular and indefinite term. It is a danger to democracy, to freedom, to freedom of expression and thought, and to things like facts, sanity and reality. We now have the incoming "speech and thought police" becoming a major factor in our societies.
Take me, I hate stupidity and evil for example, clearly hate speech, but I care about stupid people and evil people and want them to be good people and smart people.
To me, "hate speech" seems to be central in all of this, and seems to be one of the tools used in an attempt to build an ever-lasting tyranny. So, how is it possible to fight an ever changing enemy that is relative and can label everything you say as "hate speech"? Even the truth is becoming hate speech these days. How is it possible to break this terrible cycle of oppression? Personally I now believe more than ever in the truth. And "love thy enemy", because if we cannot turn our enemy to also believe in the truth, then there will just be further division and more oppression. One side will demand oppression, while the other side will demand the truth, and this in the long run cannot work. Nobody will win in such a situation.
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Is it even possible to define "hate speech"? Can it even be nailed down, and lines drawn as to what it is and can be? Or will it be an ever evolving term without any lines, that can be used to shift our whole society towards where they want us to be? Our thoughts, our speech and even the language itself. People counterargue this by saying "show me how people are jailed for speaking freely". But anyone who has read 1984 knows that this is now how it works. The population themselves are used to oppress the population, language is used to oppress and restrict thought patterns and expression, and then you have a wet hand to enforce this in form of secret police, bureaucratic madness and being told what to think. Yes, being told what to think.
I'm a firm believer in what I describe as: "the problem with media and politicians today is that the people are being told what and how to think". It's not reporting occurances as news, mostly it's opinions and implanting of thoughts into the minds of people, how to think about what they have been told/have seen happen, just now, on the news. Endless talks and "analyses" about situations to tell people what to think about it. Or just a short tiny indication at the end what to think about it. How do you formulate yourself when you report the news, can make two entirely different impressions of the same situation. And impressions is what it is about, not actually reporting what happened. That would allow for free interpretation, and if there is anything the media is good at, it's suppressing the possibility to freely interpret events.
I think "hate speech" is a convenient tool that can be used to label anything and anyone who goes against any of these things, who do not ascribe to their new idealism that have been imprinted on them by the media and politicians and organisations. A complimentary tool to this is ofcourse the frequently used "conspiracy theory" label that is used if anyone believe anything else than what they have been told is the reality.
So, what is "hate speech", how can we get rid of this concept and bury it once and for all, so that the truth may freely be discussed even tomorrow?
