I love it when a person complains about their freedom of speech being suppressed...
when really, they just don't want to deal with the idea that people don't like what they said.
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Gauntlets28 · 26-30, M
@EarthlingWise The internet's changed since those days sadly. Not least because it used to be just the educated who had access to it. Not to say that an formally uneducated person isn't capable of making a good point, but most of them are far less likely to just because they're not necessarily the kind to actively seek out knowledge..
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And if I don't like what you just said, should I try to shut you down or allow you to use your own words, thus practicing free speech?
What I find distasteful is someone attacking you personally, because they do not like your position on the matter. Far worse than holding an unpopular opinion in my book.
What I find distasteful is someone attacking you personally, because they do not like your position on the matter. Far worse than holding an unpopular opinion in my book.
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@puck61 I never thought I'd live to see the day that some liberals would try to shut down free speech? It boogles my mind somehow...I grew up in a house full of democrats who defend free thought and speech and taught me to do likewise.
Just saying people have the right to believe and express an opinion is not the same thing as saying you agree with that opinion?
Just saying people have the right to believe and express an opinion is not the same thing as saying you agree with that opinion?
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
I agree and it's a weak illogical defence used often by people who have no substantive argument. "The world is flat and how dare you say I am wrong because it's my free speech." I exaggerate but you get it.
I find it interesting as to whether free speech should be granted to people who would deny it to others. The NAZIs of Charlottesville hide behind free speech protections of a US Constitution which they would abolish in a second if they ever got power. I am torn on this issue.
I find it interesting as to whether free speech should be granted to people who would deny it to others. The NAZIs of Charlottesville hide behind free speech protections of a US Constitution which they would abolish in a second if they ever got power. I am torn on this issue.
People somewhere have never liked everything ever spoken by anyone since man formed languages.
What does that have to do with freedom of speech?
Perhaps this comment you've posted could be hung over the entrances to college campuses like
"Arbeit macht frei"
was hung at the death camps!
What does that have to do with freedom of speech?
Perhaps this comment you've posted could be hung over the entrances to college campuses like
"Arbeit macht frei"
was hung at the death camps!
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
@puck61 Pretty much just what was stated in the question. Some people seem to whine about being suppressed when in truth they just don't want to deal with the effects of what they want to say. I suppose it's a form of oppression in a way, but as you said, "People somewhere have never liked everything ever spoken by anyone since man formed languages." It's just a part of the condition. They seem to have mistaken their political freedom of speech for a kind of fantasy absolute freedom, that has never existed.
RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M
Iwillsurvive · 22-25, F
When happens this where?
Iwillsurvive · 22-25, F
@BeneathYourThrone ahhhh. What ahhh
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Gauntlets28 · 26-30, M
@Iwillsurvive You ever met a hardline Trumper? It's the usual attitude they have. Free speech is their preserve, and nobody else's.