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> The left doesn't embrace freedom of speech for those that think differently from them though. Do you have examples of the left in the US banning free speech
by fnord123 10y ago
> The left doesn't embrace freedom of speech for those that think differently from them though.
Do you have examples of the left in the US banning free speech for those that think differently from them?
> What are you afraid of?
A ban on abortions for one.
- rtx 10y ago>A ban on abortions for one. You mean a ban on murder?
- fnord123 10y agoThat's the shoving down the throat we're talking about. Thanks.
- aedron 10y agoYou two disagree. One of you will have a law that shoves something down your throat.
- fnord123 10y agoNobody is shoving abortions down anyone's throat. And no one is forcing anyone to enter into a same sex marriage.
- rtx 10y ago>Nobody is shoving abortions down anyone's throat. You are on people who didn't asked to be conceived. Make your choice before this point or with plan B. Extreme cases should go through a panel.
- CoryG89 10y agoSure, because then people will just stop having abortions. People never had abortions back before they had a legal right to it, right? If abortions are banned, the only thing it will cause is that abortions will be done in non-medical settings with dangerous methods. Just like they were for hundreds of years. Let's not even consider the number of orphans and abandoned children which would skyrocket.
- rtx 10y agoThen let's strive for a better solution. Ban on abortion after first trimester. Better government support for children who are abandoned. Would you agree with this or do support complete freedom to decide till a child is born.
- merdreubu 10y ago>Do you have examples of the left in the US banning free speech for those that think differently from them? https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/783426266380668928 https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/783426266380668928
- kibibu 10y agoProtesting is not banning
- d0100 10y agoSure it is. The extreme right uses force. The extreme left uses social pressure until it leads to violence. Different means for the same end. None are better than the other.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoAre you f-ing kidding me? You really believe the left uses free speech to ban free speech?
- rtx 10y ago>ou really believe the left uses free speech to ban free speech? They use free speech to incite violence against free speech.
- merdreubu 10y agoYep, shutting down speech because of "security concerns" is not banning, like what happened to many conservative speakers (Ben Shapiro at DePaul for example).
- briandear 10y agoWhere to begin.. Milos Yiannopolous is a great example. Lauren Southern, Ben Shapiro at DePaul University. Roger Williams University banned a conservative student group, Condi Rice was disinvited from speaking at Rutgers commencement, Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali was disinvited from a commencement speech, Ari Fleisher was disinvited from Middlebury in 2002, Ann Coulter was disinvited by Cornell, John Brennan was disinvited by U Penn in 2016, Charles Murray disinvited by Virginia Tech in 2016, Peter Theil disinvited by Berkeley in 2014z It goes on and on. See thefire.org/resources/disinvitation-database for a complete database of disinvitation attempts. The vast majority in the past several years have been from the Left.
- throwaway-hn123 10y ago> Milos Yiannopolous is a great example. So true. He's a great example of a vacuous unprincipled opportunist whose main desire is his own glorification. A really good example, thanks for bringing it up.
- fnord123 10y agoYou seem to be confused about what it means to ban free speech.