Jamie89 |
02-12-2017 08:45 PM |
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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey
(Post 9719643)
Well yeah,I don’t think many people would say that this is PC gone mad.
I’d think in most countries that free speech ends at inciting violent crime.Even in the free speech capital America you can get arrested for inciting a riot for example.
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That's what I mean though, that because this specific case is so extreme I can't imagine anyone claiming 'PC gone mad', it makes it clear to everyone that freedom of speech doesn't mean it's always ok to just say whatever you want and I sometimes get the impression that some people think it does mean that.
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Originally Posted by Brillopad
(Post 9719670)
He was inciting a serious violent criminal offence - not quite the same as having the freedom of speech to be able to, for example, openly criticise backward misogynistic religions.
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Absolutely, but in a less extreme example there would be less extreme consequences, like somebody having their views criticised for example. It's just the fact that freedom of speech doesn't mean there can't be consequences that I was highlighting as this case seemed to exemplify that quite well I thought considering everyone seems to be of the same opinion, that it's right he was punished (and yet I'm sure we'd all also be for freedom of speech). Sometimes people do go to far with political correctness but I also think that sometimes people are too quick to claim political correctness when actually any speech that provokes a reaction is deserving of a reaction. I'm not really talking about anything specific like criticising a religion, just my general view on the whole 'PC gone mad' thing and that it's often used to stop people from expressing perfectly reasonable objections to some things that get said and it sometimes gets claimed that just by expressing objection, that the person must be against freedom of speech for doing so.
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