That is not saying that Germany is abusing the law, just that they have an ineffective implementation that shitty countries could use as an excuse to enact their own abusive practices.
The United States. Speech that is used to incite violence, commit fraud, or is perceived to be a true threat are not protected under the first amendment.
I don’t know about that. I think the more appropriate stance is that it’s almost impossible to have people appropriately prosecuted when they do violate the law. Federal courts are afraid to be the court that starts the chain reaction of more appropriately defining how violation of the law and prosecution should work.
I said ripe for abuse, not that they will be abused. In any case, I haven't heard of country with hate speech laws that hasn't been abused in some form. Even in America, we don't have those laws, but that hasn't stopped the government from trying.
We don’t have those laws in the form of legislation necessarily in the US but we do have bars on what is covered by the first amendment according to case law.
The US had similar hate-speech rules to that of the rest of Europe, until the US civil rights era presented the court the opportunity to decide whether Martin Luther King's anti-racism speech was, as charged, "hate speech".
Long story short, the court decided that it couldn't define what 'hate speech' was and so decided that it shouldn't be against the law (or that the First should protect it). That's why Nazis are allowed to march and have their rallies protected by the First Amendment, all because southern US states wanted to charge the speakers of anti-white-supremacy with 'hate speech' and that was a quick-and-dirty way to disarm them.
I have no idea what you are talking about, to be honest. Never heard of those.
But Blasphemy is extremely different from Hate. Canada, for example, goes into explicit legal detail on what counts as Hate and constitutes a Hate Crime.
And Blasphemy has nothing to do with that discussion, nor have I ever heard of this concept, so either you are talking about something else entirely, or perhaps you have to link to what you are talking about?
When I look the term "Blasphemy Laws" up, it brings up something that has nothing to do with Hate Crimes. Did you perhaps use the wrong term?
Throwaway's thing seems to be making shallow bad rightwing takes and backing them up with nothing of substance. I don't think they are engaging genuinely.
Pakistan has a one of the more remarkably bad histories with blasphemy laws, if you're looking for examples. I think they're not uncommon in Muslim majority countries. Western nations had similar laws as well, but I think you have to go back a couple centuries to find them.
But the thing is the person I responded to seemed to be talking about some other one, because we are talking about Anti-Hate speech laws, which is definitely not what you just linked to lol
No... one is a law against speech against a large entity of power that holds control of the nation.
The other is a law against speech against fellow specific individuals.
If you are seriously trying to equate "I don't like (religion)" with "I think (group of people) deserve to die", then you are on the wrong side of history mate.
That would be a very bad take and I hope to hell and back again you are smart enough to see the difference between those two.
And by that I mean be socially intolerant of intolerance. Personal morals and actions don't need to and shouldn't be held to the same standard as the US Federal government.
Individuals do have more freedom to discriminate and show "social intolerance", but that obviously doesn't extend to punching people they disagree with. Or violent responses in general.
I'm not morally obligated to debate someone arguing in favor of genocide, for instance. Is it legally assault to punch them, sure. Would I want the government to come in and boot stomp them, probably not. Is punching them morally wrong, nope.
The morals of your actions are for you to decide. It's your conscience. However, if you punched someone over what they said they would be perfectly justified both in defending themselves against your aggression and in punching you right back. At that point you would have no objective rational argument that their defense or retribution was wrong which would not similarly condemn your own actions. You're the one who chose to escalate to violence, not them.
You're right. There's nothing that can be done. Racial slurs and regressive language should be taught in schools because you can't fathom a world that has a slight amount of respect based regulation.