Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Scumbag Church and Hate Speech Chapter 2
One reader posts:
Hate speech is hateful, cruel, and without merit. This is why religious can get away with saying homosexuals are worthless, but one race can't say the same thing about another race. It's an issue of justification. 'Because I say so' isn't enough. Scumbag church is justified, the fallacy and hypocrisy is clear. William:
Ah, but if a programmed BOT is doing the monitoring OR if a number of people conspire to click REPORT on a post out of simple malice, then there is some possibility of account suspension. I am not disputing about whether they are scumbags although perhaps it is not my place to judge but rather I simply question the prudence and wisdom of using certain disparaging terms when one might convey the same notions couched in neutral language and reasoning which lead the reader to feel contempt.
I would assume that each of us is the author of everything we post or re-post and we may be held accountable for it in Facebook or Google Plus or any social network. For example, certain countries have passed some very specific laws about obscure things like "holocaust denial." In those countries even reposting something which might be construed as, say, denial of the Armenian holocaust might be construed as a criminal offence.
