Giving offence and fomenting hatred are morally distinct acts

Evidence

It is one thing to cause offence; it is quite another to foment hatred. If the giving of offence should be acceptable in an open, plural society, hatred, bigotry should not. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 664

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the analytic line this text draws between offence and hatred — a definitional move distinguishing acceptable criticism from actionable bigotry, which locates its camp against censorship-based anti-racism.
• XREF: connects to: Policing speech obscures the line between offence, hatred, and violence. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 655

Related

• Policing speech obscures the line between offence, hatred, and violence. (similarity 0.82)
• Hateful criticism should be answered politically, not legally (similarity 0.80)