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Hate speech legislation, hacking and scams came up during a recent meeting over community safety, held in Dungarvan, Co Waterford. At the Waterford Local…
Here’s a scenario: I live in a colourful neighbourhood and sometimes being the only “white looking” person available the police approach me for comment, because apparently whiteness=amenable to police. I say nothing useful, as I don’t like being expected to verbalise a culture I don’t live. Had I said anything, being exquistely civilised in word and expression, according to your ideal above, I would have been being hateful. Were the police being hateful in trying to encourage me to say what is expected of a white looking person? And where does their moral compass originate? Whi...