Multiculturalism is incompatible with free speech, so banning hate speech ends up in utter tyranny. By Lachlan Leeming in The Australian.

NSW Premier Chris Minns says religious texts shouldn’t be used to promote racial hatred, questioning a planned carve out for scripture in the commonwealth’s proposed hate speech reforms.

“Hate speech is hate speech – if it’s being used to attack other Australians, it can’t be justified,” he said Wednesday, adding it was important the federal laws clearly stipulate when quoting from religious texts spills over into hate speech.

Chris Minns memorably said a few weeks ago that multiculturalism is incompatible with free speech. Got to give him points for insight and honesty. At least he’s not pretending we can have both, like too many in the Labor Party.

Minns is figuring this out. If we can’t allow hate speech in our multicultural society, then we can’t have the Koran in our society — because it contains so much hate speech that is relevant and actionable today, in Australian society. But what about people who accept the Koran as their holy book, and are inculcated in it from birth? To prevent the Koran’s hate from being spoken, are we going to monitor their speech? A government microphone in every mosque perhaps? Banning the hate speech in their book will just force them underground, like Christians in China. Then what, microphones in every home? AI bugs everywhere?

Better to have free speech. Yes, that means tolerating people who say that they would like to convert, enslave, or exterminate groups, tolerating Nazi salutes, and all the rest of it. At least we would know who the dangerous antisocial people are — and maybe our security people could keep an eye on them or try to talk them out of committing crimes. Banning their speech puts our society on a slippery slope to tyranny.

Poor dumb Albo hasn’t got it figured out. He should listen to Minns.

The answer to bad speech is good speech.