I was cruising the online news headlines and a trending topic caught my eye: “Can online hate speech be stopped?” Rather than a yes, no, or how, my mind went straight to First, who gets to decide what is hate speech?
I put hate speech in the category of hate crimes. Hate crimes place certain government-approved victims above other victims, which violates Americans’ equal justice rights. So-called hate speech is similarly used to violate Americans’ free-speech rights.
Even if it were possible to stop “hate speech,” the left has captured the term and forces it to work for them exclusively. The left makes so many accusations of hate speech, it has diluted the term to the point it’s meaningless. The most ubiquitous method is when they conflate opposing political views with hate speech.
Take Dennis Prager and his Prager U. YouTube and Facebook have removed over 100 educational videos and Twitter and Spotify have permanently banned him from advertising on their platforms. Why? Hate Speech.
Not objective hateful speech such as, “I hate all left-handed people; I’m going to kill them, and I want you to kill them, too,” which rises to the level of a crime. No, these leftist companies subjectively transform Prager’s (and others on the right) conservative, traditional, political, religious, and cultural views of America into hate speech.
Some organizations base their hate speech decisions on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) reckless accusations of racism they hurl at conservative individuals and organizations. When these selfish leftist enterprises conflate hate speech with political speech with which they disagree, how can society confront true hate speech?
With these intolerant leftists crying hate where it doesn’t exist, except in their own narrow minds, how can anyone seriously ask the question “Can online hate speech be stopped?” Not the warped way the left defines it. We don’t agree on what is online hate speech, but we agree on what is online conservative speech, and we know it can be stopped—by YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and the SPLC.
