Warp wrote:
> 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.
> 

I feel you've missed the point I was making, which is that if your hate 
speech targets a sufficiently powerful majority, you're going to get slapped 
around for much milder hate speech than if your hate speech targets a much 
smaller weaker minority.

Put it this way: if your hate speech targets only people too poor to afford 
lawyers, how likely are you to be forced to stop?

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Serving Suggestion:
     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

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