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There is no Measure for Hate Speech

15/8/2018

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​By Olivia Pierson
[First published on Incite Politics 8/8/18]

There is no such thing as hate speech. 

Hate speech is an irrational anti-concept dripping in the pure slime of subjectivity without any proper objective measure to give it any qualification.  It is exactly the same kind of anti-conceptual abomination as the preposterous notion of a ‘thoughtcrime.’ Yet, the worrying thing is that we know these absurd dogmas can become vague areas for criminal punishment if infractions of them occur, but this can only happen in a society dumbed down enough to accept the distortion of something filthy and murky standing in the place of something clean and clear.

There is only one reason why a ruthless minority within a society pushes to have hate speech laws placed around a population, and that is to blatantly repress the expression of certain ideas.   

Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux had their platform taken away because they express ideas which are critical of multiculturalism and feminism and the peecee tyrants just cannot stand it.

New Zealand has just had another example yesterday with Don Brash being given no-platform at Massey University, Palmerston North, by Professor Jan Thomas, its Vice Chancellor.  The Prof has issues with Dr. Brash’s commitment to Hobson’s Pledge to the Maori chiefs of 1840:

“he iwi tahi tatou” – 
[we are now one people]

As its website states:

Hobson’s pledge to the chiefs laid the foundation of New Zealand’s democracy: One citizen: one vote, regardless of race, colour, religion or gender.


All that sounds very unifying and reasonable to most minds – noble even, but Professor Thomas says she has concerns about: 

“Mr Brash’s leadership of Hobson’s Pledge and views he and its supporters espoused in relation to Maori wards on councils.”

Wards, which it needs to be pointed out, were democratically defeated by a referendum. 
Professor Thomas said she, “supported free speech on campus, but totally opposed hate speech.”

Huh? What hate speech?  What even is hate speech?  This is a classic fudge, lie, smear, obfuscation, invention and radically ridiculous way of saying, “I don’t agree with free speech on campus!” But to say that would require personal integrity or something close to courage.  Peecee bullies always prefer to speak chin-deep in contradictory, garbled murk.  Clear speech, like sunlight to vampires, is what they avoid at all costs. 

The worst aspect of criminalising hate speech lies in the futility of the very silly endeavour of policing people’s emotions.  Hate like love, or joy, or anger, or fear, or grief is not something that we can or should try to legislate. We’re humans and we’re allowed to feel our emotions and express them, often with vehemence.  If love is something that can be deemed a moral value, then so too is hate, for it is the emotional reaction to the very opposite of everything we love and value, therefore completely healthy in moral individuals. We ought to hate that which is evil, that which is horrible, that which is cruel, anti-freedom, anti-human and anti-life. 

None of us should be in the business of damning human emotions across the board, let alone setting up an Inquisition which tries to impose which emotions may be expressed and which should be stifled.  It is only the physical expression of initiating violence toward another person that demonstrates unhealthy hatred, and which all people in civilised societies need to be legally protected from.

In 1948 when the Human Rights Declaration was being pioneered by Eleanor Roosevelt, it should not be a surprise to notice that it was the Soviet Union which pushed hard for the criminalisation of hate speech.  The West: the United States, the United Kingdom, the Nordic States, Australia and New Zealand resisted their demands for international treaties on such a portentous issue, but the Soviet Union got their way in the end.

I urge everyone to read this sordid history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to better understand how these totalitarian peecee thugs eventually achieved their massive impetus – and from the biggest human rights abusers of them all – the enemies of individual rights, the communists.  This history answered a question that I raised in my last piece titled, Where are all the literal fascists? I asked the question: Why has the lesson about the devastation of communism upon the human race not been learned?
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The answer reveals itself in this history of the Declaration because it shows how they infected it with their pro-communist agenda, ostensibly in the name of being unimpeachably anti-fascist.  The travesty is that the communist framers of the UDHR were more totalitarian and fascist than the fascists, and that is now what we are contending with in every university, main stream media platform, bureaucracy and governmental institution.  This is what has brought about the decay of Western culture, from dubious parenting styles, to anti-bullying initiatives, to raising a whole generation of children who think that bolstering the whims of their so-called ‘self esteem’ should be the central mission of the entire universe.

All of it started with an askew and deceitful desire to criminalise hate speech.

Update: In the week since the writing of this article, Dr. Don Brash was able to speak at a debate held at Auckland University, titled: "Has PC culture gone too far and is now limiting Free Speech?"

Despite doing their hysterical best to shut Dr. Brash down with megaphones used inside the auditorium, Dr. Brash did speak and even got to point out that they were clearly illustrating the fact that they are in the business of shutting down free speech.


If you enjoyed this article, please buy my book "Western Values Defended: A Primer" ​ 

3 Comments
Allan Ong
15/8/2018 11:56:31 pm

One thing for sure hate speech is not speech or expression that a particular person or group of persons hate to hear or find offensive to their sensibilities or opinions. It is definitely not a subjective criteria. Criticism, no matter how intense and scathing, should be allowed in any matter other than that which is immutable ie something that a person or group of person cannot change and the only legitimate matter that fits that bill is one's race/ethnicity/nationality of birth. The other would be ones biological sex because the matter of sexuality and gender had been completely confused and a malarkey. The other would most probably be a congenital or medical disability including a person's IQ.
All others, religious beliefs, ideology, theology, politics and political affiliations, lifestyles, gender/transgenderism, sexuality, abortion or prolife etc are all fair game because these are all mutable. People can change their positions in all these matters throughout ones lifetime. Even religions and political movementsmno matter how oppressive their apostasy rules are, are mutable.
What should be frowned upon but not necessarily to the extent of criminality is gratuitous name-calling and slagging of unofficially and parties of dissenting or opposing positions. These acts merely incite hate and the devaluation of another person's or group's standing as deserving human beings -that is hate speech. What should be lauded are criticise based on reason and fact, substantiating a position or the criticism of a position.

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Doug Longmire
17/8/2018 04:27:58 pm

Well, no need to get complicated about this. It is quite simple - Free Speech is free speech. There are no buts, no qualifications.
Of course in a Western civilised nation, it is illegal to threaten a person or incite illegal activity.
"Hate speech" is a totally subjective label, used by opponents of free speech to criticise or condemn the opinions (voiced as free speech) of someone they disagree with.
When Thomas says she " supported free speech on campus, but totally opposed hate speech.” what she is saying is that she does NOT support free speech.
There is no "BUT" in
When Thomas says she "supported free speech on campus, but totally opposed hate speech.” she is saying she does not accept free speech.

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Mike Eden
18/8/2018 06:58:24 pm

No doubt the reason behind hate speech laws as practiced, as you say, is to stifle criticism and prevent people knowing what they are. Mainly, we are talking about Islam, but the Catholic Church has supported hate speech laws so as to repress criticism of their massive sexual scandals. (Presently, 300 priests in Pennsylvania are being accused of abuse of young boys.)

However, attacking the "spittle laden invective of the haters" is the wrong tactic for the forces of freedom. When you do this you are expecting the enemies of a free society to refrain from being your enemies--in essence you expect them to stop slitting your throat.

The forces of the Left are out to destroy all vestiges of individualism and will stop at nothing in the goal of a collective society. Hate speech laws, the concept of white privilege, the attack on males, the attack on U.S.A. as never being great, the concept of people of color as special cases are all attempts to undermine society.

The keep battering away at the vestiges of Western Civilization waiting for the collapse, and with what we have as an intellectual offense on the side of the forces of freedom, it won´t be long before they win. Trump is a stopping measure.

The belief by many Objectivists that they are in the game is pure wishful thinking. Objectivists are good at fighting among themselves. At carrying out a positive response in the real world they have no answer.

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