What Is Hate Speech? We Asked College Students

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What Is Hate Speech? We Asked College Students
Should the U.S. join other countries in regulating certain speech? Can people even agree on what 'hate speech' is?

Justin Monticello & Zach Weissmueller | January 4, 2018



What do you think of when you hear the term "hate speech"? For many, it conjures images of torch-wielding mobs in Charlottesville or right-wing provocateurs like Milo Yiannopoulos. For some, such conduct seems reprehensible enough to merit government regulation.

But it turns out that defining "hate speech" isn't as easy as pointing to extreme examples of bigotry and racism.

http://reason.com/reasontv/2018/01/04/what-is-hate-speech-ask-college-students

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Hate Speech = Any speech I disagree with.

[The_Reader_David]

Hate speech is any utterance that it furthers the interests of the left to call "hate speech".

(In English, hate is a verb, in Newspeak it is also a noun and an adjective. Since Newspeak words mean exactly what it serves the interests of the left for them to mean at any given time, this makes clear the actual meaning of the phrase "hate speech".)