(July 1, 2017 at 2:42 pm)wallym Wrote:(July 1, 2017 at 12:49 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Oh my fucking thor, NOBODY is saying you have to view his vile bullshit in a positive light. You don't defend unpopular speech for them, you do it for the long term to PROTECT WHAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO SAY."Unfortunately, given how comfortable people in power have been throughout history removing freedom when given an opening, we have to go beyond reasonable free speech to this absurd nonsense we have now to keep any threat to it at bay."
Please remember this as an ATHEIST, we are not well liked in America. Do you really want our government, which is now a majority of GOP and a lopsided gerrymandered system to give right wing Christians more power? This is what is going to happen if you keep that PC shit up. THEY are going to turn around and say, "Well if I cant say this, then you cant say that". Guess who will lose long term, YOU!
That's what I said in my first post. It's what you keep repeating back to me.
There's some nuance to the issue, but I don't think this is the place for nuance. And that's unsurprising as well, as I said in a previous post, people have been conditioned very well in how they should feel about the issue.
What standards would you emplace to regulate speech? Who do you think ought to enforce such strictures? And what limits would you emplace to ensure that such power is not wielded illegitimately?
I have never seen a power given to government that was not at one time or another abused. If you would limit a right, what safeguards would you put in place to limit government encroachment as well?
