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Originally Posted by MysticCat
The problem is that these two statement are not necessarily compatible. Of course, if one's way of life, religion, ethnicity, etc., is insulted, one has a right to speak against it. That speech, in my view, does not include death threats.
But if one is going to live in a free society with freedom of speech, at the end of the day, one has to tolerate hate speech (whatever that is -- it seems to me to be a catchall phrase for "speech that offends me" without having any real, objective meaning). Free speech works both ways.
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Yeah, I agree that death threats are very very bad. But uh, that's not the kind I was talking about.
And it's a shame that you can tolerate hate speech. I believe it should never be tolerated.