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Hate is not an opinion
How is it not? It may be an opinion stemming from a feeling but it's still an opinion isn't it?
it breaks the social contract of tolerance and seeks to end discourse by killing the participants when escalated to its final form. hate groups are no more participants in discourse than fire is an architectural style for building a house.
we don't have to take seriously the folks that suggest "let's set it on fire" when discussing whether we want to build a victorian or modern style home because they are not serious people and their poor ideas have been proven idiotic too many times to count.
I don't disagree with any of that.
However, my comment is about the definition of an opinion, and I still haven't gotten an explanation why it's not one.
Definitionally is