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I often go back to Brendon O'Neil's video about the right and duty to offend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtWrljX9HRA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtWrl
by djsumdog 6y ago
I often go back to Brendon O'Neil's video about the right and duty to offend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtWrljX9HRA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtWrljX9HRA
He talks about how it was once offensive to translate the Bible into English, or suggest God didn't exist, or suggest there was nothing wrong with homosexuality. People who suggested such things were deplatformed, and sometimes arrested or killed, but those who considered themselves enlightened and on the side of the righteous, the virtuous, the good.
- pjc50 6y agoO'Neill is literally a professional troll, to the extent that whenever there's a tragedy people make sport on twitter of predicting exactly what his contrarian take will be.
- djsumdog 6y agoI don't know much about him as a person, but I do think he makes a good argument in this video, and argument I agree with in many ways. ML King beat women and Gandhi slept naked with his nieces to see if he could resist lust. They also led millions of people to freedom. You're attacking the person here, and not his argument. That's called ad hominem.
- pjc50 6y agoYes, but O'Neill is still a professional troll and is definitely not leading anyone to freedom.