12-06-2015, 12:41 PM
(12-06-2015, 08:23 AM)billy Wrote: what is deemed offensive, can i tell peoples of all races fuck off? if not i'm against it. what if it's offensive to everyone?
polls like this are too easy to manipulate. they can spin it any way they wish. hate speech; it seems little has been done about it so far.
i think some things shouldn't be allowed and some should, depending on the context(bold added by ray).
Yeah, well, that's why I'm for universal freedom of speech. Who gets to decide the context?
Whoever's in power gets to decide. Today that might be a government you agree with,
tomorrow it might not. If the Neo-Nazis want to say they hate Jews, that should be their right.
Statements like this cannot be countered by suppression; that's the resort of repressive governments,
not democracies. Speech like this needs to be countered by the same power that allowed those
statements to be aired in the first place: Free Speech.
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