Hate speech laws historically target minority activists, not bigots.

Evidence

It is worth noting too that, just as with the attempt to censor offence, minorities themselves are all too often the victims of legal constraints on bigotry. The 1965 Race Relations Act introduced Britain’s first legal ban on the incitement of racial hatred. The first person convicted under its provisions was not a member of the National Front or of the Racial Preservation Society but the Trinidadian Black Power activist Michael X, sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment in 1967. Four members of the Universal Coloured Peoples’ Association were also convicted that year for stirring up hatred against white people at Speakers’ Corner. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 683

Categorization

• CANDY: Michael X, a Trinidadian Black Power activist, being the first person convicted under Britain’s Race Relations Act is a small, surprising historical tidbit.
• ADDENDUM: Strengthens the sacrifice/immodesty articles’ shared theme that moral-legal constraints often cut against the groups they nominally protect.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-racists’ expansion of ‘hatred’ legitimizes state censorship of minorities — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 680; Charges of antisemitism can serve state power rather than minority rights — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 714

Related

• Anti-racists’ expansion of ‘hatred’ legitimizes state censorship of minorities (similarity 0.81)
• Hate speech laws now disproportionately criminalize Muslim and dissenting speech. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Anti-racists’ expansion of ‘hatred’ legitimizes state censorship of minorities #expands (0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 680
• Charges of antisemitism can serve state power rather than minority rights #exemplifies (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 714