He isn’t saying that spreading hate is something that should be done or that it is good; rather, he is merely stating that there is a huge logical, epistemological, and ontological leap between “I hate X” (whatever that X represents) and “we should kill X” or “X should die.”
Moreover, offense ( or being offended) is simply not a valid criterion for determining what constitutes hate or violent speech. Because at least one thing will always offend at least one person, if we attempt to regulate offenses, we will have to choose between regulating only some of them — thus becoming arbitrary — or regulating all offenses, which would kill not only speech, but also expression and, furthermore, existence itself, as the mere existence of certain people might be offensive to others.
Of course you can always find one person that is offended. That’s beside the point. The point is that communication in the US: broadcast media, politics, social media, etc., is far from “just offending someone”. And that happens because nobody even cares about even “we should kill X” level messages anymore. They have become close to the new normal. It is a violent society going down a hate spiral at the moment, and being lenient on the perpetrators is not going to make it better.
Ad hominem fallacy.
He isn’t saying that spreading hate is something that should be done or that it is good; rather, he is merely stating that there is a huge logical, epistemological, and ontological leap between “I hate X” (whatever that X represents) and “we should kill X” or “X should die.”
Moreover, offense ( or being offended) is simply not a valid criterion for determining what constitutes hate or violent speech. Because at least one thing will always offend at least one person, if we attempt to regulate offenses, we will have to choose between regulating only some of them — thus becoming arbitrary — or regulating all offenses, which would kill not only speech, but also expression and, furthermore, existence itself, as the mere existence of certain people might be offensive to others.
Of course you can always find one person that is offended. That’s beside the point. The point is that communication in the US: broadcast media, politics, social media, etc., is far from “just offending someone”. And that happens because nobody even cares about even “we should kill X” level messages anymore. They have become close to the new normal. It is a violent society going down a hate spiral at the moment, and being lenient on the perpetrators is not going to make it better.
Well, about these messages I have to agree with you, but I can’t simply agree with absolutely anything else.
Oh, also straw-man fallacy.