[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Livia

Screaming in someone's face like a ****ing lunatic because he's wearing a hat with a message you don't approve of is not exercising your right to free speech.

IF that is what happened, as it stands there is no footage of how the situation came to be that incensed. The woman is a dick but let's be honest, if she was a brexiter or a Trump supporter doing the same thing then a lot of people who signed that petition to get her the sack would be calling such a petition a sign of censorship.

Originally Posted by Livia

You always talk about the far Right but never the far Left. You know, all those good people carrying their images of Stalin....

Maybe it's time to start referring to them as Stalinists. Let's diminish the seriousness of what he did in the same way the Left are diminishing what Hitler did by referring to people as Nazis without having the first clue what that means.

Attacks on abortion clinics, attacks on mosques and gospel churches, attacks on protesters with a car, the murder of an MP over Brexit. All these are examples of right wing terrorism and only the incidents I can think of off the top of my head. There's plenty of attacks that don't make the headlines.

The reason why people speak about far right a lot is because it represents a growing terrorist threat. What you are trying to do here is just false equivalency really. The extreme sides of anything should be denounced, both are a threat although it's undeniable that the Far Right are by far the biggest threat. We should denounce both of them, we should denounce people on our side who are extreme in their approach, not defend them out of tribalism.