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Old 06-12-2017, 09:12 AM #9
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Yeah,Speech should not be banned but everyone has a right to it.Opinions should be free to be expressed and challenged.That’s how we all evolve and learn.Otherwise we don’t live in a free society and repressed thoughts and feelings can turn into something much more sinister.
There does have to be a line.My opinion is that the line should be at where distress or violence is incited.
This woman made an apparently private joke.Although it seems it was not so private now.If people want to tell her it offends them then fine but when she gets disciplined for it by people in power then it gets authoritarian and dictatorial.People seem to have no sense of humour anymore.
Some of those US and Canadian Universities have gone way left.Students thinking they can throw their toys out of the pram and shut anyone down and even worse being enabled to.
Using violence and vandalism to no platform right leaning speakers because they ‘deserve a safe space’ away from opinions that they don’t agree with (or might trigger them),
Trying to shut down a conference discussing only mens issues and shouting rapists at attendees,
Trying to get university professors sacked for refusing to use ‘gender pronouns’ like ‘ze’ or ‘zir’.
Idiots will always be around but when the establishment pander to it is when the real problems start.
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