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neither is manslaughter. reduced or stayed sentences make sense but it's still best to stamp it out.
all manslaughter results in the same horrible effect, but in terms of hate speech I think there's a huge difference between a big influencer making a hitpiece and a conservative weirdo complaining to his family or his single digit follower count, the damage is nowhere near the same, and punishing so severely something like the latter case might have the opposite effect and only increase the hatred
all hatespeech also has the same effect: driving political minorities out of public life, building the base for fascism to grow its roots. it's the degree of harm that varies, not the kind. so the severity of the response should also vary but a socialist society should absolutely outlaw hatespeech, just as it should expropriate private property. reeducation should absolutely follow for everyone but committed fascists. bigots should be afraid to spew their bile. is it harsh? absolutely. but as someone who's personally been chased by a group of bigots screaming slurs with the obvious intent to beat me, allowing them to move openly only helps them build power and enables precisely those sorts of attacks.
If you believe the severity should vary on the degree of harm caused by the hate speech, then we mostly agree on everything
I would say I've been harrassed for being queer a lot of times and I've never seen a bigot be afraid, threats and punishment just make them feel vindicated sadly
they can feel however they like. the important thing is that there's a threat of violence associated with continuing to be a bigot.
yeah...
it's not pleasant, but it's important to remember that they can opt out of future consequences by simply choosing to be different.
the targets of their hate don't have that luxury. they will always be targets.
If you believe the severity should vary on the degree of harm caused by the hate speech, then we mostly agree on everything
I would say I've been harrassed for being queer a lot of times and I've never seen a bigot be afraid, threats and punishment just make them feel vindicated sadly
I think they are being a little unserious. Maybe they're in a mood or something. I don't think this approach would increase hatred except to the state, but you would also literally have most of society in prison, so . . .
the more serious answer is that you suspend the sentences for minor offenders and attempt to rehabilitate them. repeat offenders need to be separated from society with more intensive reeducation. but the threat needs to be there to prevent them from organizing against the state by stoking latent bigotries.