• Dude, you’re gonna have to accept you can’t say hate speech or express hate toward other people based on superficial characteristics at some point. You’re only making it harder on yourself quibbling over semantics.

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      If your ability to label someone as a bigot relies on your own poor understanding of language, then you aren’t fighting hate speech, you’re just a manipulative asshole.

      • @pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
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        If your ability to label someone as a bigot relies on your own poor understanding of language, then you aren’t fighting hate speech, you’re just a manipulative asshole.

        That’s what you ought to be telling the bigots, but here you are defending them.

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      If your ability to label someone as a bigot relies on your own poor understanding of language, then you aren’t an activist, you’re just a manipulative asshole.