| Runa216 said: it's not bigotry if you disrespect someone based on a conscious decision they made. Pretty sure bigotry is hating someone for something beyond their control, such as race, gengder, or sexuality. Religion is a choice. do you think it's a hate crime to say nasty things about the KKK or Neo Nazis? |
That argument is specious (look that word up if you don't know what it means).
I think the point you really want to make is that you can disrespect them as a group without disrespecting individuals, and that words and arguments are not hate crimes, unless you're actually committing some other sort of crime at the same time (such as actually encouraging people to kill someone).
"Hate crimes" are idiotic, anyway. You shouldn't make laws based on what was in a person's head when they committed a crime. What difference does it make whether you killed someone because they were black or because you didn't like their haircut? Yet many countries have laws that make the former more of a crime than the latter, bizarrely.
But that's neither here nor there. The word "cult" and the word "fag" are just words. They carry nothing more than a bit of negative emotional baggage. If you don't like someone calling you a "fag" or calling your religion a "cult", then grow a damn spine, you have no right to not be disrespected, or to not be called these things. It's not discrimination to use those words, any more than it's discrimination to call a person poor. If you treat them differently because of it, that's discrimination. The choice of word is irrelevant.
