{"id":55313,"date":"2020-05-27T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=55313"},"modified":"2020-05-26T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T12:38:14","slug":"qotd-hate-speech-is-the-new-secular-heresy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/05\/27\/qotd-hate-speech-is-the-new-secular-heresy\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Hate speech&#8221; is the new secular heresy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The cynical category of &#8220;hate speech&#8221; is openly used to police the parameters of acceptable thought and to punish those who are considered to hold heretical views that the guardians of moral correctness oppose. So not only are critics of Islam denounced as &#8220;hate speakers&#8221; &mdash; so are feminists who question the cult of transgenderism, Christians who disapprove of same-sex marriage, right-wing people who want stricter immigration controls, etc. These are all entirely legitimate political or moral opinions. The branding of them as &#8220;hate speech&#8221; &mdash; and therefore undeserving of the protections of freedom of speech &mdash; is really a way of calling these views heresy. And of course heretics must be cast out. Feminists, Catholics, critics of Islam &mdash; hound them off campus, get them off the airwaves, report them to the police for their crimes of hatred. This is an intolerant assault on heresy of the kind that has appeared many times throughout history. Those who say &#8220;It isn&#8217;t censorship&#8221; protest far too much. Deep down they know it is. Deep down they know they are to the 2020s what Joe McCarthy was to the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan O&#8217;Neill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2020\/02\/26\/why-we-must-win-the-fight-for-free-speech\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why we must win the fight for free speech&#8221;, <em>Spiked<\/em><\/a>, 2020-02-26.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cynical category of &#8220;hate speech&#8221; is openly used to police the parameters of acceptable thought and to punish those who are considered to hold heretical views that the guardians of moral correctness oppose. So not only are critics of Islam denounced as &#8220;hate speakers&#8221; &mdash; so are feminists who question the cult of transgenderism, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,28,53,41],"tags":[459,186,238,1310,34],"class_list":["post-55313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-censorship","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-offensensitivity","tag-puritanism","tag-thought-control"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-eo9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57447,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55313\/revisions\/57447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}