Lawyers costs money in my country, maybe in Irland they are free but I highly doubt it.
If calling autistic people "whiny", "petty", "obsessed" etc. is not hate speech, than also insulting any minority in the same way wouldnt.
I wouldn't know, Belfast is located in UK. Even so, I don't have a habit of pursuing punishment for people who call me names on the internet. Still, you can find free legal advice at least to get an idea if you have any basis for anything. I am sorry that I can't be bothered to do the research for you.
Correction: he called
you "whiny". "petty", "obsessed" etc., no? And considering that very thread you started.... how did you put it yourself?
well, I want to stay polite too, so I let everyone's imagination complete my sentence about your nonsense reasoning.
Attacking individuals shouldn't be tolerated in general, and he used some additional names which were in a really poor taste to use. He was stopped. Perhaps not as efficiently as you wished, but he was stopped.
EDIT: Also:
You are also assuming that protesting for anything that is not highly illegal is pointless. I think the sillyness of this concept can be evident without any further explanation. Do you really need more explanation for the difference between legality and ethicity?
If you demand punishment and firing of an employee then... yes, very much so. If you accuse someone of an assault and demand for that someone to face consequence, as well as for someone overseeing the situation for not intervening - it would be nice to determine if that assault really happened. If instead someone pushed you to the side - that wasn't a nice thing to do, but it doesn't quite count as assault doesn't it?
Accusing someone of making "hate speech" is a serious accusation. If appropriate it should be treated as such.
