Hate Crime / Hate Speech

[Theland]

I believe crime is crime, and the laws against hate crime, and in particular hate speech have already begun to undermine our freedoms.
I should have the right to express my thoughts and emotions as I feel fit and not censor myself worrying about the thin skinned being offended.
Just too many people are now finding offence everywhere and in every situation.
Give me the good old days when a committee was run by a chairman, not a chairperson, or even worse, by a chair.
What are your opinions?

[jackthehat]

Too many people are getting hung up on perceived infringements of their own rights to be insulting.......without having any direct experience of it.

The abundance of threads on quite how Muslims/Islam are robbing us of our ability to say/discuss just about anything is as tedious as they are inaccurate.

[naomi24]

kvalidir, you're mistaken.