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> There's a group of people doing it on the streets at every damn Pride event in the UK - at quite some expense to the taxpayer too, since they wind up having a
by philh 10y ago
> There's a group of people doing it on the streets at every damn Pride event in the UK - at quite some expense to the taxpayer too, since they wind up having a number of police officers stationed near them.
Not that this is false (I have no knowledge either way), but... spinning it this way, like people are to blame for the costs of protecting them from violent retaliation against their speech, feels distasteful to me.
- vertex-four 10y agoAh, I didn't mean it that way - I merely meant that this is something that the country explicitly puts resources towards protecting, not something that it "puts up with", as a direct rebuttal of the argument that the EU as a whole is strongly against the rights to expression and religion.
- philh 10y agoFair enough, I appreciate the clarification.