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Being criminally punished for saying something is not freedom of speech.
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What about threatening to break someone's legs, or burn down their house, or rape their daughter? We also have a law about "Racial vilification" here, where it's illegal to incite hate against a racial group publicly.
It gets brought into the limelight occasionally, and often gets criticism from prominent white men. It's an interesting one though. Should you be able to stand in the city and, for example, encourage people to stab aboriginal Australians?
But I do agree that in an overwhelming majority of cases being racist, insensitive or ignorant isn't something that the law should come into. If you're in a cafe or something and you don't like what someone's saying, you can take it to the owner and they can make the decision about what's reasonable to say in their private space.
Anyway I'm posting in a Jacob thread and I feel bad.