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Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands

Rich 11

There's no such thing as your list of banned words. There is bigoted language which contributes towards incitement to hatred or incitement to violence, where context and usage define the crime. If you walk down the street and yell at a black woman "Get out of my way, you nigger bitch!", then you risk arrest (not to mention her punching you and a couple of bystanders stomping on you). But if I write those words here as an example to demonstrate my point to you, the vast majority of people will understand the difference and the cops will not be kicking down my door. Context and usage. No list of banned words, no list to which a common swear word like 'pillock' or a cultural reference like 'nerd' could ever be added to.

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