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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Oh I know that the laws in this country will arrest/punish people for being dickheads, but imo being a dickhead in and of itself shouldn't see people removed off a Show like BB imo, and that's just away from anything Mickey's done because tbf he was pushing his luck.

Countries around the world claim that they need more Prison space, yet the law enforcement will arrest people for offensive comments, thus making even less Prison space.

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And in my view it's a slippery slope, because yes you're okay with censoring speech when it comes to people's prejudices, but it never stops there, history has taught us that.

I'm sorry for the long rant btw, freedom of speech is something that I am passionate about, as I didn't like it when Carol Vorderman got fired from the BBC over tweets either.

You can diminish hate speech to "being a dickhead" if you wish, but that doesn't diminish the actions words do have. People do, will and always have acted upon the words of people, take a look at history. The people spreading negative messages about women are usually not actually assaulting them themselves physically, but their words illicit a response in incels to so do. The influential people spreading anti-LGBT rhetoric aren't beating up a gay couple who are just enjoying a drink outside a pub, but they inspire others to do so, not through orders, but simply by helping stir the pot of simmering homophobia already present.

You simply cannot put your head in the sand and act like the effect of words end at the moment they leave the tongue, that they're "just words" and "offence is taken and not given". It's not about that. It's about the impact the words have on others who want a reason to think it's justifiable to punch a gay man in the face.

LGBT people are four times more likely to be a victim of assault than straight people and compared to five years ago there is a 56% increase in hate crime against LGBT people.

But yeah, the real issue is the slippery slope that starts with telling people if they say discriminatory words they will be reprImanded.

(Suffice to say, none of this is now referring to what Mickey said by any stretch, the conversation has moved far beyond Mickey onto a much larger subject at hand)