Comment by zb3
5 months ago
I see how this is used in practice. I don't know about France, but in Poland both sides use that label when convenient, and of course they refer to completely different things, yet always done by their political opponents.
Can you point to any specific cases? You are being very vague and seem to rely on anecdotal evidence.
I won't go this route. If you're planning to label views shared by 30% of voters as "hate speech" then I alredy disagree. Like I said, this is a political position.
You can advocate for conservative policies without calling black people the n-word or telling trans people to hang themeselves. And you're certainly not going to get in trouble for anything less than that, so I really don't see what you're whining about. Hate speech is what it says on the label, if you feel like it is an essential part of your particular ideology, then I find it repugnant and so does our laws. It's a political position just as making it illegal to murder political opponents is a political position.