Ironic that people who want "hate speech" to be banned including books and media deleted, accounts shut down, books removed from the markets by sellers are fine with it happening but when people use "hate speech" towards police officers who are already severely stressed by a potential media outrage for any sort of confrontation between them and blacks that I believe often (not necessarily on purpose) taunt the police into attacking them and when that occurs there is no mention of "hate speech" used against the officer. In some countries now it is already a crime for certain (what is considered) "hate speech" but if you truly think about it, "hateful comments" ARE "hate speech" but "hateful comments" on anyone that the left "protects" changed from "comments" to "speech".
The left get extremely outraged over hateful comments towards people but IGNORE them toward people like police officers whose lives are already many times more stressful than politicians lives are as they can be harmed... even killed in interactions that "ramp up" between people. Police officers are trained to handle verbal abuse but that doesn't make them immune to the stress in a situation where things continue to ramp up at all.
Now I'm not one to ban hateful comments that aren't realistically condoning criminal actions and often we have disagreements between police and the public, but I think however that things are continuing to ramp up in interactions to a level now that goes beyond what is "speech" that is hateful to what many considers "goading". Some may not like forum rules here about "goading" and I'm not totally familiar with them in their entirety but I think most can agree that people do try to "entice" others into attacking them by their "speech" or rhetoric and some are a lot better at it than others. I think that this enticing or goading is becoming more and more of a problem in society and often PURPOSELY ignored because it isn't politically profitable to point it out because when added into the equation it can swerve public opinion against the one that is goading the other.
We have seen Trump all the time goad the left with his comments and the left excoriated him over them, in other words they "took the bait" and attacked him for the comments. We have similar things going on against police officers constantly and it is getting worse and worse I think because people are realizing this behavior is profitable and although it does serve a purpose to often point out hypocrisy most often it just ends up ramping things up to a point that violence occurs.
If the left wants to push laws banning hate speech, they already ban it without laws now, then a government essentially legally censuring "hate speech" or comments against their officers should be right at home with them. If we see huge outrage from the left over this I would in a way.... chuckle because that is EXACTLY what they wish to do.... criminalize speech but against their "pet" minorities, that is the ones that follow their ideology, not those who reject it, usually they are fair game to make "hate comments".
