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"liberal" society does not police speech Cannoli Send a noteboard - 19/08/2018 03:31:54 AM

Classical liberalism fully supports the right to criticize and demean persons and concepts. Otherwise what is the point. Claiming that freedom of speech, a bedrock civil right of liberal societies, does not apply to negative speech invalidates the whole point.

Cannoli
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Interesting article in my Twitter feed last night on an issue Greg (The Shrike) brought up... - 15/08/2018 03:05:37 PM 1188 Views
I thought this response in the comment sectionwas funny - 15/08/2018 08:12:49 PM 521 Views
I was thinking about this at lunch today.... - 15/08/2018 11:43:33 PM 487 Views
I don't - 16/08/2018 12:09:32 AM 502 Views
It seemed more like moondog was making a prostitution reference to me *NM* - 16/08/2018 02:51:23 AM 270 Views
Say what? - 16/08/2018 09:47:19 PM 500 Views
It is a more of a domination / hierarchy reference I think *NM* - 16/08/2018 09:57:23 PM 261 Views
Re: Say what? - 16/08/2018 10:33:43 PM 549 Views
Yes, but there's more to it... - 16/08/2018 10:38:05 PM 480 Views
Says who? - 19/08/2018 05:05:37 AM 510 Views
However much of a hypocrite moondog is, the article, I feel, represents something else - 16/08/2018 05:51:59 AM 523 Views
Phobia - 16/08/2018 10:55:05 PM 509 Views
You don't even understand oral sex? - 17/08/2018 12:43:50 AM 496 Views
Get to a sex education class, won't you? Or at least, use Google - 17/08/2018 05:29:25 AM 445 Views
I am a normal male person, who had conversations with other male people. - 17/08/2018 08:25:48 AM 467 Views
Yes, yes, you're so male, your penis has a penis. We get it. - 17/08/2018 04:13:09 PM 526 Views
Re: Yes, yes, you're so male, your penis has a penis. We get it. - 19/08/2018 03:23:10 AM 517 Views
You are wrong about Cannoli. - 17/08/2018 02:49:35 AM 512 Views
No - 17/08/2018 05:41:22 AM 485 Views
Re: No - 19/08/2018 03:29:15 AM 527 Views
Cannoli is right: "sucks" implies the active party in oral sex - 17/08/2018 03:04:40 AM 595 Views
That would be the "receptive partner" in scientific terminology - 17/08/2018 05:44:16 AM 481 Views
Fuck scientific terminology. It blows. - 17/08/2018 08:26:16 AM 488 Views
Regarding phobia - 17/08/2018 06:30:51 PM 517 Views
There's a pretty simple test, I think - 17/08/2018 08:02:31 PM 489 Views
Once again...who are you to make that determination. - 17/08/2018 09:54:41 PM 461 Views
*I* don't make the determination, liberal society did. - 18/08/2018 12:02:22 AM 501 Views
So for clarity - 18/08/2018 01:28:17 AM 498 Views
Yes! - 18/08/2018 01:46:05 AM 479 Views
Who said I was surprised? - 18/08/2018 02:10:46 AM 483 Views
Re: Who said I was surprised? - 18/08/2018 02:32:41 AM 498 Views
Are you asking a serious question? - 18/08/2018 02:45:03 AM 508 Views
Yes, I was - 18/08/2018 01:59:48 PM 509 Views
"liberal" society does not police speech - 19/08/2018 03:31:54 AM 499 Views
You don't need to protect speech everyone agrees with. *NM* - 19/08/2018 06:02:17 PM 368 Views
It most certainly *does* police speech. - 20/08/2018 03:01:32 PM 492 Views
But to follow up on that. - 20/08/2018 03:16:07 PM 495 Views
Well, that's why we didn't stop with the FIRST Amendment *NM* - 21/08/2018 04:25:53 PM 250 Views
That's individuals policing speech, not society. Agregate individual action =/= collective action - 21/08/2018 04:25:23 PM 507 Views
I completely agree. - 21/08/2018 04:35:38 PM 465 Views
heh, heh, heh - 21/08/2018 05:00:32 PM 476 Views
Hump it like you mean it! - 21/08/2018 07:00:01 PM 523 Views
About the casual part - 16/08/2018 10:33:45 PM 470 Views
I don't think it's appropriate, but I think it's more about sexual shaming - 16/08/2018 10:35:53 PM 543 Views
Precisely - 16/08/2018 10:59:42 PM 507 Views
You are absolutely correct - 17/08/2018 02:43:21 AM 500 Views
I, for one, am glad to see this topic go flaming. - 17/08/2018 05:16:55 PM 563 Views
Yes, it is a tool used by those who should "know better". - 20/08/2018 03:14:30 PM 465 Views
well said - 20/08/2018 03:50:50 PM 516 Views

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