RE: Freedom of speech anyone?
March 6, 2015 at 1:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2015 at 1:57 pm by Regina.)
(March 6, 2015 at 1:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Non-controversial speech does not need to be defended.
Exactly.
"Free speech" means you can say whatever you want to say. You have a mouth and nobody is gagging you, spit it out to your heart's content. It doesn't mean you can't face criticism or judgment if you express controversial views. You can say whatever you like, whenever you like and however you like, but there are consequences.
I don't understand why that's such a hard concept for people to grasp.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
