[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Utter bull****. People's aggression and violence is overlooked until their opinion diverges from the accepted zeitgeist, at which point they are disowned and targeted ("held to account"). If their OPINIONS still fall within accepted range, their BEHAVIOUR is consistently overlooked and excused.







... Not "free" - expected. People are expected to react, and their reaction is expected to match the consensus of the group. If it doesn't, they are wrong. If they refuse to comment or simply don't want to get involved, it is wrong.

Utter mess and intellectually indefensible as ANY brand of individualism. It is the death of individualism and critical thought.

The true utter bull**** is what you've decided to spew over your keyboard in response. It's just gullible reactionary crap and no amount of flowery language will change that.

Your argument is fraught with nonsensical hysteria and ignorance. There ain't no one getting cancelled for nothing, sometimes you get psychos like Amber Heard that mislead and paint themselves as victims but most of the time, people act on the words and actions of others.

There's a difference between an opinion and hatred which is why hate speech isn't covered by freedom of speech. If someone spews hatred, it's the right of others to decide if they don't want to support that person.

Honestly, you only have to look as far as the metoo movement to see that you're talking rubbish, there's plenty of people who spoke out in favour of Metoo only to be revealed to be abusers themselves and left wing people weren't like 'you might be an abuser but you say the right things so it's k'. No, they hung them out to dry just as much as other abusers.

Honestly, if you like sitting on the fence then sit on the fence, don't need to write all that to try to justify doing so.