Just because you can say anything you want doesn’t mean that you should.
The internet would be a much less incendiary place if people spoke to each other as they would face to face in the street.
Being able to back up your opinions with well reasoned, logical, fact based arguments would also make the discourse more productive.
True.
However, not everyone speaks with truth regardless whether on the internet or face to face. It is unwise to believe that everyone speaks the TRUTH just because we live to speak the truth, fact based. Not everyone is ready to hear the truth and even if they do, their social conditioning, their upbringing will stop them from seeing "REALITY" vs "THEIR REALITY".
We need to learn to accept that there will be people in this world with varying values and beliefs. Just because we seek TRUTH and we want to speak on fact based, it does not mean everyone wants the same.
My point, we should be willing to have an open dialogue, a conversation, and open discussion. Let's all be mindful of our biases. Before we react, label every conversation as hate speech. Ask ourselves, why am I labelling it as HATE.
Is it because those phrases are offensive to me or aggresive?
Let's admit different culture have different tolerance of what is offensive and not, HATE or not.
As someone who grew up in the East and live in the West, two different culture, I completely understand this by experience.
Hence, there is Law and Order. But if the very fabric of it, the very institutions who put the bill, are struggling to be honest and transparent to their people, I believe this is an ongoing challenge.
All we can do is start the change from within. There is no community unless we do not work within ourselves.
Good discussion though! 😊
Have a good one!
Cheers,
M💋
