I made this right after James Gunn was fired, coming off the firing of Roseanne. Disney looks more and more like they're going to take over everything. And if they have their way, they will police everyone's thoughts and speech. I am a firm believer in Free Speech, and I don't believe "Hate Speech" is necessarily bad. One person's hate speech is another person's free speech. Everything the left says about the right and the right says about the left could be taken as "hate speech." The point of free speech is to allow that kind of speech to take place.
Why are we not allowed to hate things? I hate things that suck, so I'm going to point it out. Is that really supposed to be insta-banned? To air your grievances without fear of repercussions is exactly what free speech is. Offense is a fake virtue. If you're offended, than that's your problem. Changing yourself is a lot easier than trying to change society, and basically reality itself.
I hate Nazis. To a Nazi, what I said is hate speech. I hate Communists. I hate child predators. I hate rapists. I hate authoritarian feminists. There are plenty of things to hate, and companies or governments cannot be trusted to decide which things are hateful and which are not. There is no objective hate speech standard, nor should there be. Including towards actual bigots and racists and generally shitty people.
Why? Why should bad people have a platform? Because if their ideas are shitty, then it's easy to point them out. It's easy to track them, to counter their arguments with better ones. The best way for a bad idea to die is to be publicly destroyed. If you force people off and ban them, that only hides the idea and makes it stronger. Kill it in public. Conversation must continue. It's the only way to smooth out the bad idea wrinkles in the fabric of our society. And also, people make mistakes and people make bad jokes. Get over it. If you're not physically harmed, then you'll be fine. Joke back. Be funnier. Be smarter. Use other people's stupidity that you know in your heart is wrong to force you to grow.
