My main concern with the whole "hate speech" censorship campaign is, who gets to decide what hate speech is? Is it a bunch of emotionally fragile gender studies majors? Recently Stanford University released a list of "Harmful Language to Avoid", which lists word's like American, and picnic. A rational person would find something like this to be extremely ridiculous. It all comes down to this quote Benjamin Franklin once said about how people who abandon liberty for safety, are not deserving of both.
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it's impossible to implement, plain and simple.
The Standford list is ridiculous and essentially turns people into language police, ready to be offended at every turn.
One of my favorites on the list is "addicted", and it is suggested that people instead use the term "devoted". Seriously?
It sounds even stupider in practice - "My friend is devoted to cocaine." A devoted person is someone who's: caring, concerned, dedicated, loving, etc.
"My friend is in love with cocaine... and because of this love cannot bear to be apart from his/her/they's favourite pass-time."
It actually loses the meaning of the original statement that this person has a problem.