Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech
washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-four-argument...
washingtonpost.comPosted Oct 15, 2012, 1:58 AM UTC
1114
washingtonpost.com[deleted]
5
Intolerance for intolerance is the only intolerance tolerated.
5
There's a big difference between hating an idea and banning an idea. The latter is authoritarian.
And yes, r/anarchism has a big problem with the latter. That's exactly why this message belongs here.
1
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from social responsibility (then again, this is a statist society with little of the latter).
Of course, we anarchists should ask, where is our free speech? If we make a rousing speech for the masses to unite, we're detained for "inciting a riot". You're allowed to say whatever you want, so long as it isn't about overthrowing the government.
Where's Leah's free of speech? Where's all our other comrade's freedom of speech?
What a fucking joke.
5
[deleted]
1
Freedom of speech or your excuse to be a bigot?
5
By definition, defending freedom of speech means defending the freedom of speech you hate.
There's no never a need to protect speech you agree with.
1
In other words; freedom of speech is an excuse for people to be shitty human beings.
4
No. You don't make shitty human beings less shitty by silencing them. You just make yourself shitty too.
1
Newsflash; The shitty people don't matter, their targets do.
0
[deleted]
1
I don't defend the speech of bigots and reactionaries.
0
Then you don't defend free speech at all.
0
You mean I actually take a look at the situation and engage my brain instead of applying a one-size-fits-all type of rule? Can you explain to me why bigots deserve free speech?
0
WP is conspicuously silent on, say, the Grand Jury which has the government confiscating books and artwork of anarchists in the Pacific Northwest. Or the softer management and control of speech implicit in the exhortations of people like Jon Stewart to tamp down frustration into snarky cynicism rather than justified outrage.
Instead, they concentrate on how sad it is that white supremacist and patriarchal speech is frowned on. The message is pretty clear: Go crazy on the right and the WP will champion your cause. But don't you dare question white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, or the state.
Pretty paintings, tho!