I <3 liberal values, and thus I'm worried about SJWs and their tactics. But still, it bothers me that they keep getting strawmanned :(.
Can anyone muster a reasonable (if ultimately misguided) argument for the position that "hate speech" is tantamount to violence?
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I realize it's misguided and even very dangerous, but what's the most charitable way to understand it?
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Basically, hate speech (esp. right-wing stuff lately) breeds lethal violence among supporters. While not everyone will do it, some % will.
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The other side of this, the no-patformers, are trying to push society into saying “this is not OK”. We want racists to stop killing people.
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If a certain speech makes violence ultimately inevitable, you can't separate the two.
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Encouraging targeting of minority's, advocating genocide, these things influence action. Also, fascist recruitment & organisation = speech
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Canada, UK, Germany.. We all have hate speech prohibitions. We aren't automatically less free because of it.
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So most "hate speech" isn't straight up blood libel, but publicly casting people as monsters sorta predictably results in attacks.
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In theory, hate speech can raise mobs and cause people to be afraid and change their behavior, and possibly even provoke violence later
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This just popped up in my feed, directly above your tweet:https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/869670198848221184 …
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