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Originally Posted by roachboy
isn't hate speech incitement by definition?
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Incitement to violence. That should not be allowed. Period. And yes, people most certainly do act on it. That's how assaults, riots, beatings etc start.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Well said, roachboy. Another way of looking at it is with this construction: "We should do [blank] to [the other] because they aren't [us], and they are the cause of [something we fear or hate]."
There are many bits of this kind of thing throughout history. Go back to your Rwanda example, and especially Nazi Germany.
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Look no further than the USA, Canada etc. Plenty of examples of hate speech and incitement.
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