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.