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	'''Hate speech''' is a legally defined term that means "a crime" in many countries. It implies trying to create hate against a specific ethnic or religious group, or other recognizable minority community. Professions or clubs or groups that one associates with voluntarily do NOT count, under any circumstances, as hate speech: it is always entirely legal to say that a group or profession abuses its priveleges or powers, EVEN if that group has a strong correlation to a specific ethnic or religious group. Accordingly it is not hate speech to claim that the USA is run by [[w:Stupid White Men\|Stupid White Men]], as [[w:Michael Moore\|Michael Moore]] claimed in his book of that name.		'''Hate speech''' is a legally defined term that means "a crime" in many countries. It implies trying to create hate against a specific ethnic or religious group, or other recognizable minority community. Professions or clubs or groups that one associates with voluntarily do NOT count, under any circumstances, as hate speech: it is always entirely legal to say that a group or profession abuses its priveleges or powers, EVEN if that group has a strong correlation to a specific ethnic or religious group. Accordingly it is not hate speech to claim that the USA is run by [[w:Stupid White Men\|Stupid White Men]], as [[w:Michael Moore\|Michael Moore]] claimed in his book of that name.

	[[Name-calling]] is much less serious than '''hate speech'''. It is not illegal unless the "name" implies a crime, e.g. "murderer", "thief", "fraud". ~~If that name implying a crime is applied to an entire group, it may be hate speech by some definitions, e.g. "all Jews are murderers: they killed Jesus."~~		[[Name-calling]] is much less serious than '''hate speech'''. It is not illegal unless the "name" implies a crime, e.g. "murderer", "thief", "fraud".

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'''Hate speech''' is a legally defined term that means "a crime" in many countries. It implies trying to create hate against a specific ethnic or religious group, or other recognizable minority community. Professions or clubs or groups that one associates with voluntarily do NOT count, under any circumstances, as hate speech: it is always entirely legal to say that a group or profession abuses its priveleges or powers, EVEN if that group has a strong correlation to a specific ethnic or religious group. Accordingly it is not hate speech to claim that the USA is run by [[w:Stupid White Men|Stupid White Men]], as [[w:Michael Moore|Michael Moore]] claimed in his book of that name.

[[Name-calling]] is much less serious than '''hate speech'''. It is not illegal unless the "name" implies a crime, e.g. "murderer", "thief", "fraud". If that name implying a crime is applied to an entire group, it may be hate speech by some definitions, e.g. "all Jews are murderers: they killed Jesus."

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Jukeboksi at 10:38, 27 July 2004

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