The disgraced comedy writer and anti-trans campaigner is set to give oral evidence to the Communications and Digital Committee on Tuesday (9 March [2021]).
The freedom to think is opposed first of all to civil compulsion. Of course it is said that the freedom to speak or to write could be taken from us by a superior power, but the freedom to think cannot be. Yet how much and how correctly would we think if we did not think as it were in community with others to whom we communicate our thoughts, and who communicate theirs with us! Thus one can very well say that this external power which wrenches away people’s freedom publicly to communicate their thoughts also takes from them the freedom to think - that single gem remaining to us in the midst of all the burdens of civil life, through which alone we can devise means of overcoming all the evils of our condition.
Shout out to all you abuse survivors who are warring with “freedom of expression and speech!!!” and “thank God maybe i won’t be so triggered on this hellsite anymore”
Now, I may be a peace-loving hippie, but I’m one of those people who is in favour of attacking fascists. To explain my point of view I will quote Lady Death herself “Every [German] who remains alive will kill women, children and old folks. Dead Germans are harmless. Therefore, if I kill a [German], I am saving lives.” -Lyudmila Pavlichenko
So what does this have to do with the neoliberal thought prison? It perceives all violence as equal, when that couldn’t be further from the truth, Punching a Nazi isn’t the same level as assaulting people because you don’t like the colour of their skin. Yet if you punch a Nazi, you’re somehow “restricting freedom of speech,” in a way they’re right, fascists can’t peddle their hate speech if they’re missing a bunch of teeth, for an example of this hit this link to see how the neoliberal and conservative parties enable fascism.
You can be intolerant of intolerance, it is necessary to be.
Companies such as Twitter and Facebook will sometimes make content moderation decisions that seem hypocritical, inconsistent, and confusing. But private failure is better than government failure, not least because unlike government agencies, Twitter has to worry about competition and profits.
I feel that at the beginning, the body positive movement was very important, it made people realize that the world of fashion imposed unhealthy thin standards instead of celebrating different bodies and beauties. But in 2020, the movement became something that I neither support nor accept. It became extremist and radical.
It has become an excuse for obese people to settle down and eat fast food every day. If an anorexic is not healthy, why is obesity accepted? People in this movement don’t even want to hear science! You can’t change basic science as your feet can’t handle a certain weight or premature death at 50 or 40 years. The internal organs are not supposed to be submerged in body fat! How difficult is it to understand this? Or that curvy girls are not obese girls?
Taking care of your body of your health is the true self acceptance and body positivism!
I will definitely receive negative comments and insults for having an opinion, but everyone has the right to have freedom of speech and to have a debate about things.
FINALLY someone reblogs the updated version of my post. Thank you. Everyone has been reblogging the OLD version like crazy, which ended up confusing quite a few people. I updated the text in this image 3 days ago.
If any of my followers are seeing this: Please help reblog this more so it catches up, because it explains the case a LOT better than the old image, which I’ve replaced with this one.
It was on a Wednesday morning (June 1, 2016) that the 20-year-old ‘top Israeli terror suspect’, Meir Ettinger, was released from custody after leading the arson attack on the Dawabsheh home in Duma village.
An attack in which the 18-month-old baby was burned alive on his peaceful sleep, while both of his parents died in hospital. As for Ahmad, their 5-year-old son, he spent months in hospital recovering from third degree burns on 70% of his body.
The Israeli terrorist was released chargeless from that day on and what was most ironically symbolic is that he was released on what is known to be “Children’s Day”.
Anyways, the question that lingers on my conscience is: why do we hear of such news only from local media?
It has been remarkable how, since the Holocaust, in particular, the hoopoe – that is to say, the “Israeli national bird” – sings everyone’s pen to sleep. We are living the claimed freedom of speech era, yet whenever it comes to the occupying Israel, the mass media is seen to be taking a nap. No one could ever say anything sensitive or critical about Jews unless they were “anti-Semetic”.
I’m not even going to lie, I judge people, and I judge them hard. if I see a person with some wacky ass clothes on or a girl wearing bright blue eyeshadow up to her super thin arched sharpie looking eyebrows ya I’m judging them because I personally don’t agree with their choices, but I keep my mouth shut and keep my damn opinions to myself because I’m not a piece a shit who wants to put others down. it’s perfectly okay to not agree with someones choices, but there is absolutely no reason for you to tell them that you think what they’re doing is wrong or to tell them that you don’t like how they look or dress or act. THERE IS NO FUCKING REASON FOR IT. stop talking shit and then defending yourself by saying “oh well i’m just stating my opinions!!! freedom of speech!!!!” you’re not just innocently stating your opinions, you’re being a jerk.
Today, hundreds of “Democracy Spring” protesters were arrested in front of the U.S. Capitol. They were staging a sit-in to demand the repeal of the Orwellian-named Citizens United ruling and an end to corporate money in politics. By some estimations, this was the most people ever arrested in one day in D.C., and there have been anecdotal reports of the District running out of jail cells. Let the…
No longer is this about the rights of students to access books. It’s now about the rights of private businesses to sell books. Anderson suggests this is a new avenue for parents to fight.
“We are in a major fight. Suits like this can be filed all over Virginia. There are dozens of books. Hundreds of schools,” he said.
Holy shit this is a BIG FUCKING WARNING SIGN. Challenges to school and public libraries aren’t cool obviously, but they’re not unusual and we have a framework for handling them. This is something new and alarming in a whole new way
Republican “free speech” y'all and don’t you forget it.
This is a direct challenge to the freedom of the press and if it isn’t struck down at the first hurdle we need to make sure it never sees the second one.
On the miniscule off-chance that anyone who sees my reblog might be thinking “oh, it’s just queer books that they’re trying to ban” - A Court of Mist and Fury is a het romance. It is a het romance containing het sex scenes, written by a straight white woman.
People have been warning all along that the right-wing thought police were never going to stop with queer lit or ‘woke’ lit, and that every time they got an inch they were going to take a mile until they’d banned absolutely everything that didn’t conform to their strict right wing fundamentalist Christian views. If you were waiting for proof of that, here it is.
