The Law Commission drops its disgraceful idea to criminalise private comments made in your own house

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Dinner table comments made in private that are deemed offensive by the easily offended will not now be classed as hate crimes, with law reform chiefs abandoning disgraceful plans to extend the offence into homes.The Law Commission had proposed that the crime of stirring up division over race, religion or sexual orientation should extend to private dwellings. That would have meant controversial dinner table conversations could have led to the hosts or guests facing a police probe and a potential prison sentence. Lord Injustice Green, the commission’s chairman, acknowledged critics’ concerns that the original plan to ditch the hate crime exemption for private dwellings could lead to people being prosecuted for comments made in the home for the mere giving of offence. The criminal team is looking at alternative ways in which the law might be reformed, seemingly to pander to the easily offended. Offsite Comment: The Law Commission is watching you 13th February 2021. See article from spiked-online.com by Joanna Williams That it even considered criminalising dinner-table conversations is remarkable.