Hate Crime laws are utilized in corrupt ways. They are absurd from start to finish. Many existing laws already cover various crimes that many would argue for.
A common example is the Cinema rush. Screaming there is a bomb would cause a panic and people might be trampled.
Laws already cover this.
From Defamation laws to incitement of voilence laws.
Only Tyrants need to police speech itself. Lets abolish all Ministry of Truth style systems.
Even the âCinema Lawâ was not required, because a law against lying and telling certain kinds of lies was already in common law.
I 99% agree 99% of the time.
But if someone is found to have committed a crime due to hatred of the country, think leftists throwing statues in a river, I can see an argument to increase a prison sentence to banishment or similar.
I agree. The more laws that we have, the more chance there is for them to be abused.
âHate Speachâ laws are to subjective and open to interpretation.
Bad law is to easily pressed into service against the population.
Any law that can be used to stand in the way of absolute equality before the law, must be abolished.
Totally agree. Hate crimes are usually malicious,or covered in another (more just) way in existing law.
No idea that has advanced human development was ever not regarded as hateful and offensive by someone. Galileo was kept under house arrest for what we would today class as having said something that someone might find offensive about a protected characteristic. We have to be able to question everything. If someone finds it offensive, that this their problem, not ours.
These hate speech laws are being further weaponised by a plainly institutionally captured police force by the recording of ânon-crime hate incidentsâ that the accused is unaware of and will appear on a DBS check. This is nothing short of thought police. Alison Pearson is doing us all a great service by challenging them in the Courts.
Hate speech laws are antithetical to freedom, and must be repealed.
So, I think this should probably be narrowed in scope to hate speech laws? Hate speech is certainly barely below âthought crimeâ in terms of ridiculousness, and in terms of contrariness to British traditional values. So absolutely, we should repeal any legislation that criminalises it.
âHate Crimeâ can (and does) include things like burning people out of their homes for being a (legal) migrant â things that we should want to prevent (regardless of the orthogonal illegal immigrant issues).
Are there any other forms of hate crime that youâre thinking of?
Why should the motivation matter.
Someone burns down a hotel because of racism isnât any worse than someone who did it because they had an argument with the owner.
Lock them up for that.
