Great work. The meaning of 'hate' has undergone scope creep, and now, as you say, is simply asserted for differences of opinion. Just as Egale has become censorious, so has the US ACLU, same story in 2023.
Egale has not "pivoted" as some tactical move. There are now apparenty different powers-that-be at Egale who have very different views about free speech than that former powers-that-be, much as here in the USA the American Civil Liberties Union has turned into a juggernaut opposing women's free speech and freedom of assocation.
The surge in hate groups, either online or in-person, in the first Obama term drew a great deal of justifiable attention. I was working in that field during the second Obama term and saw how the NGOs and nonprofits began to shift policy away from free speech towards censorship. Then Trump broke them. It was time to "punch Nazis" and of course everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi. In reality you could not swing a US congressional district if you found every last genuine Naitonal Socialist in America and registered them there. (One nut even tried this plan in Idaho, it did not go well.) In fact I doubt one could fill the Rose Bowl with actual Americans who are ideological Nazis. But we are supposed to fear them so much that we chuck the Constitituon. We have to, otherwise the Nazis will win power and take all our freedoms away, which would be just so terrible.
Someday some censorious, self-righteous woke activist who accuses someone of "genocide" for claiming, say, that there are only two sexes, is going to find herself as a defendant in a lawsuit for defamation if the target of her ire suffers harm such as the loss of employment as a result.
Great work. The meaning of 'hate' has undergone scope creep, and now, as you say, is simply asserted for differences of opinion. Just as Egale has become censorious, so has the US ACLU, same story in 2023.
Egale has shifted from embattled to triumphant in influencing policy and has made a convenient shift of principles as a result.
Egale has not "pivoted" as some tactical move. There are now apparenty different powers-that-be at Egale who have very different views about free speech than that former powers-that-be, much as here in the USA the American Civil Liberties Union has turned into a juggernaut opposing women's free speech and freedom of assocation.
The surge in hate groups, either online or in-person, in the first Obama term drew a great deal of justifiable attention. I was working in that field during the second Obama term and saw how the NGOs and nonprofits began to shift policy away from free speech towards censorship. Then Trump broke them. It was time to "punch Nazis" and of course everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi. In reality you could not swing a US congressional district if you found every last genuine Naitonal Socialist in America and registered them there. (One nut even tried this plan in Idaho, it did not go well.) In fact I doubt one could fill the Rose Bowl with actual Americans who are ideological Nazis. But we are supposed to fear them so much that we chuck the Constitituon. We have to, otherwise the Nazis will win power and take all our freedoms away, which would be just so terrible.
Someday some censorious, self-righteous woke activist who accuses someone of "genocide" for claiming, say, that there are only two sexes, is going to find herself as a defendant in a lawsuit for defamation if the target of her ire suffers harm such as the loss of employment as a result.