from The Daily Blog
The hate speech review is horrifically wrong footed.
Beyond the technical issues of policing hate speech and beyond the concerns of Governments having the power to censor online speech, there are two issues that make this whole reflection on hate speech fraught.
The first is the Woke Left’s belief that micro aggression leads directly to macro violence. This ideological need to police micro aggressions as if they are war crimes has the ability to turn solidarity to stop terrorists live streaming their violence into a freedom of speech fight as quickly as you can say ‘the Wellington Twitteratti are coming for you’.
Section 61 of the Human Rights Act prohibits the “incitement of disharmony” on the basis of race, ethnicity, colour or national origins. Those wanting more controls want religion, gender, disability and sexual orientation added, which would be agreeable if it weren’t for the Millennial need to police micro aggressions and redefine ‘incitement of disharmony’ as bullshit twitter fights.