# WaPo editorial "Why America needs a hate speech law" **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 30, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-editorial-why-america-needs-a-hate-speech-law/842699 "2019-10-30T14:13:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 211
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-editorial-why-america-needs-a-hate-speech-law/842699/211 "2019-11-02T08:19:11Z")
Actually, I just want to requote select bits of that with emphases, because it becomes more abhorrent a statement the more I reread it: > [@Hate speech and censorship](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-speech-and-censorship/842871/57): > > **I’m willing to sacrifice** the interests of some \*\*people \*\*[…] to protect an **institution** People (and once again, let me emphasize that for hate crime laws that means people who historically were absolutely _brutalized_ and often _still suffer oppression today_) must be sacrificed - to an idea. Not an _actual practice_, because\*\* there’s no place where free speech is absolute\*\*. But the _idea_ of free speech, that is the Moloch into which we must feed _actual people_ - our gays, our PoCs, our Jews, our disabled, all our oppressed. All so some Nazis can get to deny the Holocaust with impunity. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-editorial-why-america-needs-a-hate-speech-law/842699)._