"If this thing you call 'hate speech' is banned, and it is you who effectively defines what this 'hate speech' is, then you may effectively ban whatever sort of speech and speakers you yourself dislike. It's a beautiful thing, censorship, when you're the one holding the whip." QotD

"'Hate speech' is so amorphous a thing it cries out for definition.
    "And this is the real point of this term: precisely that it is so hard to define. This is the true beauty of this anti-concept. Because if this thing you call 'hate speech' is banned, and it is you who effectively defines what 'hate speech' is, then you may effectively ban whatever sort of speech -- and speakers! -- you yourself dislike: White men. Gun owners. Your critics.
    "It's a beautiful thing, censorship, when you're the one holding the whip."
          ~ paraphrased from this blog's post, 'The knee jerks, and, after having jerked, what's left?'

RELATED LINKS:

• And This is Why the Anti-concept of "hate speech" was Invented - NOT PC 
• Transcript: Golriz Ghahraman & Stephen Franks on free speech - WHALE OIL
• “The Free Speech Vernacular: Conceptual Confusions in the Way We Speak About Speech” -  Prof. Tara Smith, TEXAS REVIEW OF LAW & POLITICS

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