Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   Being more lenient of criticism of the "majority" and stricter of criticism
> > of a "minority" is a double standard 

> Not necessarily. If the minority of 10 people say something that offends 
> 10,000 people, should they be punished 1000 times as much as if the 10,000 
> people say something that offends the 10 people?

  No. The severity of "hate speech" (however you want to define it) and the
punishment imposed should be completely independent of the size of the
group of people being targeted.

  There's not only a logical reason for that, but also a practical one.
The practical reason is that if some group is an "acceptable target" for
heavy criticism while other groups get special protection, that will only
cause resentment and animosity, aggravating the underlying problem.

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                                                          - Warp

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