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>I don't want the state or a special interest group, deciding what is 'hate
speech' or a 'hate crime'.


I'm going to go on the assumption that what you mean here is that you don't
want the state or a special interest group deciding what is 'hate speech' or
a 'hate crime' for everyone else in the country.

Obviously, what constitutes hate is a personal opinion, but if we say that
we don't want the state (ie. government) to decide what 'hate crimes' are,
then doesn't it follow that we don't want the state to be able to keep any
sort of hate crime from happening?

If I tell people that I hate reformers, and I convince them to kill you and
many other people in your party, do you not feel that I deserve to be
punished for my involvement in your death?  Or is it just your bad luck that
you didn't think to convince them to kill me first?

I know, I know, I'm a hopeless realist.

Gothland