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"Hate" Speech DOES NOT Exist. There Is Only Speech.

"Hate" Speech DOES NOT Exist. There Is Only Speech. | IF YOU SILENCE SPEECH YOU HATE; IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE SILENCES YOU. | image tagged in bill of rights,defend,speech,you,hate | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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My N-word challenge to those who don’t believe in the concept of hate speech

I couldn’t exactly tell whether you were being sarcastic in your prior comment to this meme where you dropped the n-bomb (which gets censored by ImgFlip anyway, rightly so) so I ask again

Is the N-word “hate speech” in your book? Why or why not?
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Ahhhhhh. Free speech. A beautiful thing, sealion.
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I wouldn't call that beautiful, but to each their own.

Do you think you have free speech on ImgFlip?
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Now you dunnit, Kylie's crack team of lawyers are gonna git you now!
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Better declare bankruptcy right away!
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Oh yes, it's hilarious how the Sealion tees up his memes in the hugbox safe space zone, gloating about how he's gonna own the conservatives and gets completely ignored.

He's been sealioning so hard lately, you can smell the fish stench wafting off him.
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HUGBOX!!!!!
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"Why is that?"

The soft bigotry of low expectations. He thinks of minorities as children only he can guide and save.

A study came out a couple years ago that said liberals, unlike conservatives, tend to talk down to black people, using more simple words then they would a non black.

Just look, Kylie wants that scary slur for black people posted, no doubt to divide and try to use as ammunition against them.

Meanwhile, he has zero problem with rap and the double standards based on melanin.

Can someone half black say it? Quarter black? One eighth black? Shaun King black?
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Well, she actually got booted down the street, unlike Shaun King, who is the best proof that one can be racist to one's own race, who's profited off blm donations while being a fraud.
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Is it just me that's dying to see her naked though? Like, before and after, to see the extent of the paint job.
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Didn't she make sextapes? Seem to recall that. Not that they were released but who knows what the future will bring?
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I don't know, I just heard the basics of her story.
I'd feel weird looking at sex tapes without permish, tho, seems sorta like a violation.

That smirky glint she got, it catches muh attention...
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He looks like a wonderful character *cough cough*, I'm gonna have to look into him.
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I know we live in clown world but he took an Oprah scholarship. Pretty ballsy.

Remember when The Young Turks hired him for a minute. Released a press report and darkened the tint in the picture of him lol
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Eww, cooties.

They hired him as an excuse for the pic?
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No, they just tried to help him larp as black. Because he's super leftist, hates cops and whites and pushes their narrative. Otherwise they'd call him out. Couple years ago, when I'd hate watch TYT. What a channel. They have Anna, an Armenian, working for a Turkish/American guy that denied the Armenian genocide and called his organisation The Young Turks. Cenk ran for some public office and finished like 12th. In California, I believe. Guess supporting beastiality doesn't help gain votes.
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Is he not the most insufferable, entitled racist pos on the planet? Well, Shaun King. Chunk larped as a conservative at one point.
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Wasn't the 30 year war particularly brutal and destructive?

Yeah, as Stalin and scum like Yagoda ushered in the holodomor.
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You keep accusing me of having a savior complex. However, allyship doesn’t mean you’re trying to rescue or guide the other. It means you’re recognizing their essential humanity and lifting each other up.

Though my OP meme is sarcastic, I’m not trying to divide anyone honestly. I’m showing we’re all regardless of political stripe pretty much on the same page in recognizing the n-word is off-limits. But I do think that also suggests we all at least implicitly recognize that hate speech exists on some level.

Here’s one view on the word:

https://universitystar.com/32731/opinions/only-black-people-are-allowed-to-say-the-n-word/

I’ve heard non-black minorities (e.g. Latino, etc.) use the “n”-word amongst themselves. It’s not quite as damaging as when white people use it (since white people specifically were slavers for the most part), and I think you’ll find blacks on both sides of that debate. The article I linked above says still not okay for other minorities.

Anywho: If you’re white as a feather without any African blood, it’s a pretty bright-line rule against using it.

Using it as a slur that is. If you have it in quotation marks as Timber did above (he also seems to have been assisted by ImgFlip’s auto-censor), you’re discussing it abstractly and not weaponizing it against anyone, it’s not as bad, but to be on the safe side I and the article I linked say “n-word.”

The fact these questions are complex is no excuse not to think about trying to get it right.
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Allyship? Who asked to enter into an allyship with you?

Pointing out how "you’re recognizing their essential humanity and lifting each other up," merely serves to illustrate that you're missing your own point - as if that's what it was.

You speak of recognizing and lifting as if "they" were the usual alien other, and that you're allowing them to impose upon you this altruistic task of which you so maganimously perform because you're so wonderfully you.

These terms you use, the context you frame them in, they are all inherently divisive.
You're spewing your White Messiah spiel for the nth time, playing oblivious to how you elevate yourself while lowering your adopted 'charges' to the status of hapless children in dire need of your illustrious guidance.

Your ignorance of current trends as well as history is no surprise given your ignorance of your own shallow and artificial motives and the meaning of the sentiments you spout.
Hoodrats of whatever racial/ethnic/cultural background living in the same slums immersed in the same subculture (B-Boy Music, 'urban') using the same slang is a thing - not just amongst suburbanites like your 'woke' self gittin down wit it while listening to Eminem on your MP3.

Likewise with history. The Colonial practice of chattel slavery in the Americas began over a century before Jamestown, 1492, to be specific, with Cristobal Colon in Hispaniola.
The higher proportion of people of African descent throughout the Caribbean isn't exactly disconnected from the slave trade stopping there en route to North and South America, and the usage of them in the labor intensive farming of sugar cane throughout tht tropics.

That you separate 'White' from Latino is a function of your racist worldview, that you overlook the Latino blood stained hand in slavery and point fingers soley at the Anglo practice of it is likewise racist.

Your patronizing and condescending blathering just about renders your prostate rubbing bs to the level of caricaturespere. Please stop.
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The n-word is different when used by blacks amongst each other. They’re using the word to reclaim it, generally.

When whites use it, they’re tapping into centuries of oppression.

I don’t know your race for a fact but the impression you give is of a white conservative. If I’m wrong, feel free to correct me. Though I can’t trust your statements as far as I can throw them anyway.

Hope this helps.
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Reclaim it?
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Rob the word of (some of) its power to hurt by taking it as their own. Blacks are not the only minority group to have done this with slurs originally targeted against them. That doesn’t mean it’s now magically okay for everyone to say.

Have you never heard of this concept?
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No, I haven't, and neither have you.
You cannot reclaim what was not yours in the first place.

Dafrig cave did you crawl out of?
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Dude, we're all friends, don't hold back XD
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I agree. Stoking racial unrest like it's 1935 or something. Encouraging victimhood instead of strength. He won't get what that means. Leftists can't see the eventually outcome of their politics, just the immediate dictates of their feelings.
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I don't think hate speech doesn't exist, but it is protected. I wouldn't call anyone the n-word. It's in poor taste.
The problem with banning hate speech is it keeps getting re-defined. For instance, some claim that citing factual statistics that depict certain ethnic groups unfavorably is hate speech, despite the fact it's factual.
Also, what gets categorized as hate speech is inconsistent. What if I said "Trump is a dumb ape who has no business in the white house." Not hate speech. Now same sentence, but I replace Trump with Obama.
Hate speech does exist. But many want to ban hate speech, and then define any dissenting opinions as hate speech to quell honest discussions. And not just about race. All sorts of identity issues fall under that umbrella. What happens if there's an effective trans age movement and criticizing pedophilia gets defined as hate speech?
Also allowing hate speech makes it easier to identify people you want to avoid. Banning the speech won't change biggotedness, it will just make the bigots less obvious.
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