Victoria Hate Speech Expansion

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Victoria plans to expand hate speech protections. What’s the problem?

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Plans have been afoot in Victoria , Australia to expand the state’s existing hate speech protections.

Currently only race and religion are protected; the idea was to add a number of new protected groups.

The current proposal is to add both sex and gender identity (as well as sexual orientation, disability, and sex characteristics) to the list of attributes protected by anti-vilification law.

If censorious legislation redounds against those it was meant to protect, we can expect it to redound against feminists.

The likelihood only increases when two groups are in the midst of a heated social conflict, as gender-critical feminists and trans activists are, and are newly protected, as women (sex) and trans people (gender identity) will be.

We can similarly expect groups from both sides of the Israel /Gaza conflict to use the legislation against each other.

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informal

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English

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Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech