Governments Are Creating A Fake Hate Panic To Censor, Interfere In Elections, And Imprison Their Political Enemies
To the extent governments and NGOs are recording more so-called hate speech, it s because people today are far more likely to label speech hateful than were people just a few decades ago. By almost every measure, our tolerance of racial, sexual, and religious minorities is at an all-time high.
And we should also be very wary of governments hyping terrorism since it leads to abuses of power. After 9/11, the hyping of terrorism fears allowed the US to invade a country we never should have invaded, occupy a country we shouldn t have occupied, use kidnapping and torture as standard operating procedures, and violate fundamental civil liberties.
Now, it appears that the US and other governments around the world are hyping hate in order to weaponize the government against their political enemies.
Michael Shellenberger. This is exactly what is going on.