Originally posted by: Mahisa_22
I already defined it for you. Encouraging discrimination against a group constitutes hate speech. And since cis, white men aren't discriminated against anywhere in society, your argument is null and void from the start. It's common sense that certain marginalized groups are more vulnerable to hate speech than others. That' a downright no-brainer which doesn't need to be stated explicitly.
And yes, saying transwomen who haven't transitioned shouldn't be allowed in female washrooms IS hate speech, in case you weren't aware.
Who decides what is discrimination? You claim it's a no-brainer, but what you're saying seems more like historical ignorance.
Let's say, I, as a woman, do not want trans women with male equipment in female shelters, acc to you, it is discrimination.
Might I remind you, these trans women, under their male identity, would've been able to own property, vote, work a job they wanted, play sports, join the military, become priests, even beat their wives if they so felt inclined, only a 100-some years ago while biological women wouldn't.
So why would women - a group MORE discriminated against since the beginning of humanity - be asked to give up their safety and security?
A sexually assaulted woman who takes shelter in GOVERNMENT-RUN safe place has to face the same situation she ran from according to you. All to favor a group that is in with the woke crowd now.
If I speak against it, acc to you, it comes under hate speech. Fortunately for me, it's not the case in the United States. You could look it up. I can shout it from the rooftop, and the government can't do a single thing to me. And I do not want the country to go to a situation where I can't object to it.
Then comes your statement hate speech is OK as long as it is against a group which has not yet been discriminated against/considered privileged. That worked out well in all those dictatorships - the French revolution, Nazi Germany, Socialist/Communist Russia. Even Venezuela if you want some example more recent.
Because at what point does society decide okay, NOW this hate speech is also discrimination? Or does it never decide that? Do power-intoxicated little twits continue the same indefinitely? Once sanity prevails among regular folk (because it eventually does) and such people stop contributing to society (as happened in all those tyrannies), the societies fall.
All I can say to people who think like this is those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. By the time you wake up, and not simply be woke, it will be too late. Hope to God I'm far from this lunacy by then.
Here's a nice little quote for ya before I sign off (because we're clearly going in circles):
āOf all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.ā
ā C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock
Edited by HearMeRoar - 3 years ago
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