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Joe Rogan Slammed For Claiming Resurrection of Disability Slur Is 'One of the Greatest Cultural Victories' (www.latintimes.com)

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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

is retard classified as hate speech under the US federal government?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is anything classified as hate speech? I though it was subjective for the most part

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

yes? Legally hate speech is not protected under the first amendment, so by definition something must be classified as hate speech, racism for example. Generally hate speech. I don't know if this word specifically would be.

I guess you could subjectively classify it as hate speech, but there is a lot of hateful speech out there, so that might get redundant pretty quick.