Only one in five voters want to retain hate crime act

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1. Too late voters

   You vote in virtue signaling leftists then you complain about their virtue signaling laws

   Stupid is as stupid does

   Good luck trying to undue all the shit they’re going to slam down your thoughts while they’re in power

   They will replace everything they can with their own to make themselves permanent

2. I think people should be able to talk freely about sex with out being silenced.  I think both sides of it can get pretty toxic but telling someone they aren’t allowed to speak and immediately brand them a bigot/phobe is only going to make people even angrier.  

3. 1/5 that’s about right these days. It’s the minority that is winning.

4. Oh no, the media has told us all what the law means before it’s even been used… Why would they do that to us all?! What possible purpose does such a deed achieve?

5. There’s no getting round the fact that the vast majority of coverage of this law, misrepresents what it actually does.

6. Unfortunately article is paywalled so can’t see details. But assuming it’s a reliable poll, that just serves to show out of touch the SNP have grown.

   At the heart of this policy (and as campaign) is a paranoid moral panic, most fervent when the bill was proposed back in 2020, that has largely cooled in most of the country.

   A moral panic that assumes everyone is a secret bigot or racist. An assumption that demonstrably isn’t true. Scottish people are amongst the most decent, caring, kind people in the world.

   And they have a great sense of humour, that this bill stands completely at odds with. Most language is formed around subtext. The literal words someone says could very easily be ‘seen as offensive’ when written down or paraded around a court. But the intention is almost always something very different. Satire, parody, sarcasm, spoof, or just plain being silly. 99.9% of offensive humour falls into these buckets, and to criminalise that is madness.

7. I think the big problem, is that certain sections of our society and government conflate disagreeing with the hate crime law, with agreeing with the hate.

   None of us want arseholes and prejudice in our society. We all see the problems with ignorance and bigotry of various kinds. But we also look around the world, and back at history; and what we don’t want is to be in a police state that polices your thoughts… because anyone and everyone ends up falling foul then; because it easily and inevitably becomes a tool to be wielded at the whim of whoever ends up in power.

   You should never consider and then introduce a law based solely on the outcome you aim to achieve; you have to look at what else that brings, and where it shifts the goal posts to.

   You don’t want the hate… EDUCATE. Although obviously, that requires funding public services properly; which clearly is not government policy under the current regime.

8. It’s reassuring that the only time Scotland gets any serious coverage in national UK media is usually to try and put the boot into the SNP.

   Looks like they are doing something right.