I reclaim everybody’s right to #hate anything and anyone, and to publicly say so.

#Hatred (like love, scepticism, or indifference) is a private feeling which can’t, and shouldn’t, be regulated.

I can’t understand how #HateSpeech even became a thing. People express strong contempt for other people, for ideas, for groups, and for institutions all the time: against capitalism, communism, billionaires, Trump, the fossil fuel industry, whites, men, black, children, scientists, vaccines, theists, atheists, social media. Only the flimsiest of intellectual criteria justify polite society’s indifference towards (or even approval of!) most of those expressions of #speech, and hyperbolic outrage towards others.

Hating is not the same as hurting nor threatening to hurt. As always, it is physical violence (pardon the tautology), calls to violence, or credible threats of violence, what counts — and only that.

The polity doesn’t require that we align all our feelings — only some of our actions. That’s the spirit of a just #law.