RE: Is there free speech in Belfast?
July 17, 2015 at 8:42 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2015 at 8:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
But if you suffer -legal prosecution-...that -is- an infringement of free speech. Hate speech and "inciting to violence" statutes facilitate precisely this, while not, so far as we can tell...providing any measure of protection against the actions that might follow -from- hate speech or those that agree with the contents of hate speech. Shutting them up, doesn't seem to shut them down.
Free speech may not -require- that I give a douche a magaphone, but I'm definitely -supporting- free speech when I do. Im also hoping to make the "who's who of douchedom" more open to the public, more transparent. How many of you know, offhand, who white supremacists point to as the most compelling voice in white supremacy today? How can you oppose the rhetoric of white supremacy, if you don't know who's voice it is to look for, whose statements to dispute...and how are you ever going to figure that out, if you allow faceless government agents to hush them under the auspice of "hate speech"?
I, personally, don't think that speech does or should enjoys -absolute- freedom...but establishing that my words are responsible for violence (or a murder) committed by another is going to be a looooong uphill battle, and so it would be a long uphill battle to establish that the words of a bigot are -actually- to blame for the death of some person that bigot doesn't like......when it's another guys neck on the block. I might hate the motherfucker...but I'm not throwing him to the wolves because of it.
Free speech may not -require- that I give a douche a magaphone, but I'm definitely -supporting- free speech when I do. Im also hoping to make the "who's who of douchedom" more open to the public, more transparent. How many of you know, offhand, who white supremacists point to as the most compelling voice in white supremacy today? How can you oppose the rhetoric of white supremacy, if you don't know who's voice it is to look for, whose statements to dispute...and how are you ever going to figure that out, if you allow faceless government agents to hush them under the auspice of "hate speech"?
I, personally, don't think that speech does or should enjoys -absolute- freedom...but establishing that my words are responsible for violence (or a murder) committed by another is going to be a looooong uphill battle, and so it would be a long uphill battle to establish that the words of a bigot are -actually- to blame for the death of some person that bigot doesn't like......when it's another guys neck on the block. I might hate the motherfucker...but I'm not throwing him to the wolves because of it.
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