You don't need to protect speech everyone agrees with. *NM*
Hieshyn Send a noteboard - 19/08/2018 06:02:17 PM
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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.
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.
The God King mourns...
Interesting article in my Twitter feed last night on an issue Greg (The Shrike) brought up...
15/08/2018 03:05:37 PM
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It seemed more like moondog was making a prostitution reference to me *NM*
16/08/2018 02:51:23 AM
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Say what?
16/08/2018 09:47:19 PM
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Re: Say what?
16/08/2018 10:33:43 PM
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However much of a hypocrite moondog is, the article, I feel, represents something else
16/08/2018 05:51:59 AM
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Agreed that they went way too far by including everyday useage of the word, sucks.
16/08/2018 02:15:54 PM
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Phobia
16/08/2018 10:55:05 PM
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You don't even understand oral sex?
17/08/2018 12:43:50 AM
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Get to a sex education class, won't you? Or at least, use Google
17/08/2018 05:29:25 AM
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I am a normal male person, who had conversations with other male people.
17/08/2018 08:25:48 AM
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Cannoli is right: "sucks" implies the active party in oral sex
17/08/2018 03:04:40 AM
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Regarding phobia
17/08/2018 06:30:51 PM
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There's a pretty simple test, I think
17/08/2018 08:02:31 PM
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Once again...who are you to make that determination.
17/08/2018 09:54:41 PM
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*I* don't make the determination, liberal society did.
18/08/2018 12:02:22 AM
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So for clarity
18/08/2018 01:28:17 AM
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Yes!
18/08/2018 01:46:05 AM
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Who said I was surprised?
18/08/2018 02:10:46 AM
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Re: Who said I was surprised?
18/08/2018 02:32:41 AM
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"liberal" society does not police speech
19/08/2018 03:31:54 AM
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You don't need to protect speech everyone agrees with. *NM*
19/08/2018 06:02:17 PM
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It most certainly *does* police speech.
20/08/2018 03:01:32 PM
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That's individuals policing speech, not society. Agregate individual action =/= collective action
21/08/2018 04:25:23 PM
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I completely agree.
21/08/2018 04:35:38 PM
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Exactly. "Islamophobia is a word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons."
20/08/2018 08:54:03 PM
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I reiterate that I sometimes expect it from people who may be right of center/right.
16/08/2018 09:52:08 PM
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I don't think it's appropriate, but I think it's more about sexual shaming
16/08/2018 10:35:53 PM
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Sigh I foresee 7 days of homosexual prison jokes in the near future in media adjacent places
22/08/2018 04:42:23 AM
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I think our casual acceptance of rape as part of prison is a major moral failure
22/08/2018 03:41:38 PM
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