Hate Speech, and why Elon doesn't get it.

It is hard to define "hate speech", like it is "pornography".

Hate speech is something where the negative emotional content overweighs or hurts or insults or degrades peolpe and where the actual content contribution of the speech is swamped by the hateful content.

Kind of like "fighting words" I would liken it to.

In a forum context, hate speech infringes on the rights of the participants and audience to engage productively, and it may even be intended to stop or cripple the forum and thus democracy.

I think Elon is an intelligent guy. But I also think that he is so busy and spread around mentally that he does not have the time and depth necessary to weigh in or manage political issues.

Elon expresses a lot of very immature ideas that he takes seriously because he doesn't have the time, bandwidth or inclination to find out about the experiences of other people outside his bubble.

Elon is repeating a lot of Conservative tropes and ideas he picked up somewhere non-critically and takes them seriously because he just doesn't care to learn about things - it is too much for him.

Not because he is stupid or mean, but because it is too much him with all the things he is doing. It is like an overload, so he just switches off and relies on what he thinks he already knows - and says he doesn't care what other people think.

That sounds like someone who thinks of himself as a king or dictator ... or CEO ... and wants to frame the whole world in those terms. This is why billionaires should not have outsized political power in a democracy - and it is also why a lot of billionaires in their hearts really hate democracy.