I contested it, but decided not to follow through; I doubt Facebook's review board cares about nuance like conditional statements. Context was discussion of the risk the US may collapse as a political entity in our lifetimes under autocratic rule.
Facebook has to manage an international social network, and I don't really expect them to distinguish nuances like punching up versus punching down. I've personally never considered it hate speech to suggest that the Founding Fathers who feared mobocracy had legitimate concerns, but I won't argue that I phrased it poorly in this situation.
Anyway, let this be a lesson to us all: it's hate speech to suggest that if America collapses into autocracy, it will be because Americans were too stupid to self-govern.
If "____ is/are stupid" crosses the line, then perhaps we HAVE gone too far into the realm of sensitivity? I mean... maybe?
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