Joe

Like, woah",
             "The Thong Song" and "Gangsta B". Try telling one of the over 50 women who
             were assualted that day that hate speech doesn't hurt anyone. It's just talk,
             NO one with any intelligence is advocating that the fact that somone is offended is the jutsifying condition for the limitation of hate speech
             Furthermore, there's no independent impact to the arguement: the affirmative is using pretty bright line standards of harm (working on the narrow assumption that oppression is a BAD THING) and the kind of subjective standards you decry are already employed in virtually every sexual harasment and discrimination case, all of which measue subjective mental states by "reasonable man" standards. Furthermore, it's!
             become an almost incredibly stupid dogma among debaters that the marketplace of ideas is simply beyond reproach, requiring no kinds of outside conditions in order to be sustained. Try actually READING On Liberty. Mill says himself that the greatest danger to the free expression of ideas isn't censorship
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