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Scotland has decided to make it illegal to “stir up hatred.” It is unclear what that means exactly or whose opinion of “hate” will be used to prosecute such criminality, but it is likely safe to assume this would include calling she/her a he/him.

According to the BBC:

Scotland's new hate crime law came into force on 1 April.

It deals with various issues but the two main ones are stirring up hatred and offences aggravated by prejudice.

The new law creates a new crime of "stirring up hatred" relating to protected characteristics.

A person commits an offence if they communicate material, or behave in a manner, "that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive," with the intention of stirring up hatred based on
age, disability, religion or, in the case of a social or cultural group, perceived religious affiliation, sexual orientation, transgender identity, and ) variations in sex characteristics (sometimes known as being intersex).

So, the material and behaviour must be BOTH threatening or abusive AND intended to stir up hatred.

The bar for this offence remains lower than for the other protected characteristics, as it also includes "insulting" behaviour, and as the prosecution need only prove that stirring up hatred was "likely" rather than "intended".

You don’t even have to commit the act they claimed happened, there just needs to be a possibility that the act was committed, as they said the prosecution only needs to prove the suspect “likely” was hateful.

But what is the difference between being “likely” hateful and “actually” hateful?

It is also now a crime to “insult” which makes no sense since people hand out insults all the time. Does this mean comedy is illegal? What about sarcasm?

Technically, it does not matter the “intent,” just whether or not the feelings of the other individual were hurt. That is literally insane and the government should not be in the business of regulating feelings.

It is morally permissible to hate a lot of things and it's asinine that liberals would take such an ambiguous term and pretend it's universally a bad thing.

What officials have done is basically outlaw anything they don't like. Hate speech is just speech that someone hates. This is not something that should be up for negotiation. And it is not. We all know that only one type of speech will be prosecuted and that is when it goes against the leftist narrative. It is so ambiguous it is not even possible to properly define it under law.

There is no way anyone can justify this law knows that they are not on the side of truth. Because if their ideas had even the slightest chance in the market place of ideas, they would not have to control language through legilsation.

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