中文圈大部分人对Hate Speech(仇恨言论)毫无概念,甚至有不少傻逼认为这是“言论自由”。不过这么认为的傻逼并不都是纳粹,还有相当一部分是自由主义者,不少自由主义进步右派鼓吹“完全的言论自由”,反对对任何言论进行任何限制。
不过,“完全的言论自由”这种东西是否存在呢?答案是:现实中不存在,也不可能存在。
这世界上所有国家的法律都对言论做出了限制,不同之处只在于对哪些言论做出了何种限制,但都有限制。不信?那请问哪国法律没有诽谤罪?请问广告宣传是不是一种言论?那么要不要对虚假宣传立法?请问对别人发出死亡威胁,要求其自杀,是不是言论?请问捏造谎言抹黑某人然后使其身败名裂,要不要惩罚这种行径?请问攻击抹黑某个种族,结果导致对该种族的暴力攻击增多,要不要惩罚这种行径?
而且不少文明国家(接近社会主义的国家)都对仇恨言论立法:
The Belgian Anti-Racism Law, in full, the Law of 30 July 1981 on the Punishment of Certain Acts inspired by Racism or Xenophobia, is a law against hate speech and discrimination that the Federal Parliament of Belgium passed in 1981. It made certain acts motivated by racism or xenophobia illegal. It is also known as the Moureaux Law.
The Belgian Holocaust denial law, passed on 23 March 1995, bans public Holocaust denial. Specifically, the law makes it illegal to publicly “deny, play down, justify or approve of the genocide committed by the Nazi German regime during the Second World War.”
(比利时法律禁止种族主义,排外,以及否认纳粹大屠杀的言论。)
In Canada, advocating genocide against any “identifiable group” is an indictable offence under the Criminal Code and carries a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment. There is no minimum sentence.[16]
An “identifiable group” is defined for both offences as “any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or mental or physical disability”.[18]
(加拿大法律禁止针对肤色种族宗教国籍民族年龄性别性取向性别认同这些个人无法自由选择的属性鼓吹屠杀,如果有人这么做,那么最严重可判处五年监禁。也就是说,鼓吹屠杀是刑事犯罪。)
Denmark prohibits hate speech, and defines it as publicly making statements by which a group is threatened (trues), insulted (forhånes) or degraded (nedværdiges) due to race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin, faith or sexual orientation.[24]
(丹麦法律与加拿大类似,禁止针对个人无法自由选择的属性鼓吹仇恨)
There has been considerable debate over the definition of “hate speech” (vihapuhe) in the Finnish language.[25][26]
If “hate speech” is taken to mean ethnic agitation, it is prohibited in Finland and defined in the section 11 of the penal code, War crimes and crimes against humanity, as published information or as an opinion or other statement that threatens or insults a group because of race, nationality, ethnicity, religion or conviction, sexual orientation, disability, or any comparable trait. Ethnic agitation is punishable with a fine or up to 2 years in prison, or 4 months to 4 years if aggravated (such as incitement to genocide).[27]
(芬兰法律也禁止基于个人无法自由选择的属性鼓吹仇恨,并且最高可判处4年监禁。)
France‘s penal code and press laws prohibit public and private communication that is defamatory or insulting, or that incites discrimination, hatred, or violence against a person or group on account of place of origin, ethnicity or lack thereof, nationality, race, specific religion, sex, sexual orientation, or handicap. The law prohibits declarations that justify or deny crimes against humanity—for example, the Holocaust (Gayssot Act).[28]
(法国的刑法和新闻法也类似,除此之外还禁止否定反人类罪行或为反人类罪行洗地,例如纳粹大屠杀。)
In Germany, Volksverhetzung (“incitement to hatred”) is a punishable offense under Section 130 of the Strafgesetzbuch (Germany’s criminal code) and can lead to up to five years’ imprisonment.[29] Section 130 makes it a crime to publicly incite hatred against parts of the population or to call for violent or arbitrary measures against them or to insult, maliciously slur or defame them in a manner violating their (constitutionally protected) human dignity. Thus for instance it is illegal to publicly call certain ethnic groups “maggots” or “freeloaders”.[30]
On June 30, 2017, Germany approved a bill criminalizing hate speech on social media sites. Among criminalizing hate speech, the law states that social networking sites may be fined up to €50 million ($56 million) if they persistently fail to remove illegal content within a week, including defamatory “fake news”.[31]
(德国法律禁止暴力威胁,冒犯,恶意攻击人格尊严,最高可判处五年监禁。并且在2017年通过新法律,规定社交网站如果不在一周内移除仇恨言论内容,最高可被罚款5600万美元。)
In Iceland, the hate speech law is not confined to inciting hatred, as one can see from Article 233 a. in the Icelandic Penal Code, but includes simply expressing such hatred publicly:
Anyone who in a ridiculing, slanderous, insulting, threatening or any other manner publicly assaults a person or a group of people on the basis of their nationality, skin colour, race, religion or sexual orientation, shall be fined or jailed for up to 2 years.
(在冰岛,公开宣传仇恨会被罚款或判处两年监禁。)
The Dutch penal code prohibits both insulting a group (article 137c) and inciting hatred, discrimination or violence (article 137d). The definition of the offences as outlined in the penal code is as follows:
- Article 137c: “He who publicly, orally, in writing or graphically, intentionally expresses himself insultingly regarding a group of people because of their race, their religion or their life philosophy, their heterosexual or homosexual orientation or their physical, psychological or mental disability, shall be punished by imprisonment of no more than a year or a monetary penalty of the third category.”[58]
- Article 137d: “He who publicly, orally, in writing or graphically, incites hatred against, discrimination of or violent action against person or belongings of people because of their race, their religion or their life philosophy, their gender, their heterosexual or homosexual orientation or their physical, psychological or mental disability, shall be punished by imprisonment of no more than a year or a monetary penalty of the third category.”[59]
(在荷兰,鼓吹基于种族宗教性别性取向的仇恨,以及攻击残疾人或精神疾病患者,会被处以最高1年监禁。)
Sweden prohibits hate speech, and defines it as publicly making statements that threaten or express disrespect for an ethnic group or similar group regarding their race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin, faith, or sexual orientation.[75][76]
(瑞典禁止仇恨言论。)
概括一下,攻击(歧视冒犯暴力威胁)个人无法自由选择的先天属性和身份的言论,都属于仇恨言论。
有人大概会奇怪,宗教不是后天价值观吗?为什么基于宗教鼓吹仇恨也不行?难道说不能批评宗教信仰?
并非如此。宗教的确是后天价值观,但教徒父母强迫后代信教导致宗教成为了一种无法个人自由选择的身份,当然那些政教合一的国家更不用说了。打个比方,那些政教合一的伊斯兰国家中的穆斯林,和中国的团员一样,都是被强加的身份,而不是个人后天自行选择的结果。而基于宗教的仇恨,也不是指对教义的批评(欧洲人可是从启蒙时代就开始明确批评教义了,社会主义者更是一直批评愚昧野蛮的教义),而是指“穆斯林都该死”“穆斯林都是恐怖分子”这类无差别攻击说辞。
我们知道人权是相互依存的,并且不可能相互冲突。那么如果允许仇恨言论,仇恨言论就会攻击践踏其他人权以至于让对应的人权彻底消失掉。不相信?那么请问,如果你想要屠杀某群人,第一步需要做什么?当然不是直接去屠杀,否则师出无名,人民根本不会支持你的行为。所以,第一步是鼓吹仇恨,当年纳粹党上台之后,就开始大肆系统性鼓吹对犹太人的仇恨,还拍摄辱骂犹太人肮脏的电影,最终为奥斯维辛铺平道路;而1994年卢旺达大屠杀爆发之前,RTML鼓吹对图西族人的仇恨持续了几个月;共匪在新疆建立集中营之前,也花了数年时间鼓吹仇穆。
所以,仇恨言论根本就不是那些傻逼进步右派幻想的“自由表达”,而是屠杀行动的起手式!那么对于屠杀行动的起手式,难道不该禁止吗?难道还要任由仇恨泛滥,局势无可挽回,再去哭泣吗?
而且既然人权之间是相互依存并且没有任何冲突的,那么逻辑上就可以直接推导出言论自由这一基本人权必然不包括鼓吹仇恨言论的自由,或者更准确的说,不包括鼓吹削弱或消除其它人权的言论的自由,例如婚姻是一种社会人权,那么鼓吹反对或不支持同性婚姻就是对人权的践踏,鼓吹“同性恋是罪恶”就更不用说了。
呵呵,发现了吧?如果严格执行Hate Speech Law,那么这世界上的一神教教条都是严重违法的,因为基督教和伊斯兰教的教义本身绝大部分就是在鼓吹仇恨的。所以上述文明国家的教徒和教会基本上是不敢公开鼓吹那些反人类教义的,只敢挑一些人畜无害的话语摘录传教。有些人看过这类教会和教徒之后就以为基督教有多么多么好,也够白痴的,连bible原文都不知道去看。
《V字仇杀队》里有这样一段台词:为什么这个世界会变得如此糟糕?的确,有些人比其他人的责任更大,这点毋庸置疑,但如果你真的想要寻找罪魁祸首?照照镜子吧。Hate Speech Law实际上隐含了这样一个观点:普通人并不像很多反对极权独裁的人所一厢情愿的认为的那样无辜。以中国为例,中国的现状非常糟烂,而责任最大的自然是共匪高层和这个极权独裁制度本身,这点没有疑问;可普通中国人就是完全无辜的吗?就可以摆出一副“反正老子被骗什么都不知道,反正老子被剥削压迫是完全的受害者,责任找政府承担去”这种充满了受害者心态的嘴脸吗?
的确,普通中国人被骗,被剥削压迫,是极权的受害者,可是同样的普通人在为新疆的集中营叫好时,在对满地的私人古拉格沉默时,在社交网站上鼓吹穆斯林都该死时,在为唐纳德希特勒叫好时,他们难道不是在加害别人吗?他们难道不是和极权联手形成迫害同盟吗?因为自己是受害者,就把自己加害别人的事实也否定了,这可真是恶心啊。沉默的好人,就是邪恶的同盟。
纳粹大屠杀的制造者并不仅仅是纳粹政府和军队,还有千千万万支持纳粹政府的德国人民。同样,中国的悲剧,也不仅只是中国政府和中国共产党员的责任。
最后,社会主义社会需要Hate Speech Law吗?社会主义下剥削压迫被消除,没有了大规模制造仇恨和杀戮的基础(实际上资本主义本身需要仇恨言论以分裂工人阶级和为资本主义推脱责任寻找替罪羊,所以资本主义下对仇恨言论的压制其实是很成问题的),但是,社会主义本身并不能保证每个人都获得快乐,总有人会生活不如意,而仇恨言论会影响这些人并促使他们作出伤害别人的事,所以社会主义社会也需要禁止仇恨言论的法律,而且社会主义政府对Hate Speech Law的执行力度要比资本主义政府大得多,谁敢公开鼓吹仇恨就等着进监狱吧,至于想要组织起鼓吹仇恨的组织那就更是做梦了。
参考资料:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#Hate_speech_laws_by_country