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Is the so-called "right of freedom of expression" dead as a concept?
"The Bank of England’s Deputy Governor Ben Broadbent has apologised for “offence caused” by his description of the UK economy as “menopausal” and past its peak."
"Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti slammed Livingstone for likening Jews escaping Nazis with Nazis themselves."
On Wednesday, John Bercow was heard by some MPs calling Andrea Leadsom, the leader of the House, a “stupid woman”.
"A group of students who reportedly made jokes about rape and used racial slurs have been suspended by the University of Warwick after private Facebook messages came to light. Eleven male students have been suspended after screenshots of alleged racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages in a Facebook group chat were shared with the prestigious university."
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And so on and so on, every day. That's anti-Muslim, anti-gay, anti-semetic, you can't say this, you can't say that, yadda yadda.
Personally I'm tired of this stuff. People can't say anything about anything anymore without someone jumping on their backs trying to mute them and make them feel bad about themselves.
If we aren't allowed to say anything any more, because the people who want to take offence will always rush in to take offence at everything because they can, please tell us and we will simply shut up for ever.
"Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti slammed Livingstone for likening Jews escaping Nazis with Nazis themselves."
On Wednesday, John Bercow was heard by some MPs calling Andrea Leadsom, the leader of the House, a “stupid woman”.
"A group of students who reportedly made jokes about rape and used racial slurs have been suspended by the University of Warwick after private Facebook messages came to light. Eleven male students have been suspended after screenshots of alleged racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages in a Facebook group chat were shared with the prestigious university."
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And so on and so on, every day. That's anti-Muslim, anti-gay, anti-semetic, you can't say this, you can't say that, yadda yadda.
Personally I'm tired of this stuff. People can't say anything about anything anymore without someone jumping on their backs trying to mute them and make them feel bad about themselves.
If we aren't allowed to say anything any more, because the people who want to take offence will always rush in to take offence at everything because they can, please tell us and we will simply shut up for ever.
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If you can't stop spouting sexist or racist comments then it's you that's the problem.
If you can't say anything nice then keep your mouth shut.
Simple .
There is a trend of people claiming their freedom of speech is being violated when they actually mean they want to be allowed to be predjudiced.
To call her a stupid woman implies there is a stupidness which all women share and she is exhibiting that quality.
I'm absolutely fine with anyone calling Rees-Mogg a stupid man. I'm not taking that as a slur on the male gender at all.
Mrs Worry is a wonderful woman:
To call her a wonderful woman implies there is a wonderfulness which all women share and she is exhibiting that quality????
Everyone has a right to express themselves and everyone has a right to be offended. The problem is that people now are very easily offended, and the "rules" don't make much sense, e.g.- it's ok for one black person (if that's not offensive) to use the "N-word" to describe another, but not for a white person. It's ok to have "music of black origin". We must have certain ratios of women or minority groups in charge of companies, regardless of merit. Women-only golf clubs are ok, but men-only aren't (I play at one, and we gets lots of abuse over this). It will soon be hard to avoid causing offence that the sensible thing to do is to stop trying so hard.
And not more offensive or illegal than the antisemitic, racist, misogynist behaviour you are defending.
I do.
Where's the torelance you preached in your opening post?