Reply #38: Tada

[DirkGently]

"Republitards?" And how about simply mischaracterizing a point of view? Or exagerrating to make a point?

Again, I like the example of calling everyone antagonistic toward homosexuals a "homophobe." I call them that too, but it IS a broad, sweeping, perjorative insult designed to inspire dislike and distaste in the listener. And it's likely not entirely true, either.

But I assume people favoring hate speech laws have a specfic point of view in mind for targeting, and it's inevitably not their own.

Just to be clear, I think it's absolutely necessary that we all make qualitative distinctions in our arguments. But the solution to that is more speech, not one group deciding that another is so far off base that they're going to jail over it.