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> If the only reason you can find for justifying what you say is that nobody has made a law yet to stop you (and we do have laws to stop some things from being
by abernard1 6y ago
> If the only reason you can find for justifying what you say is that nobody has made a law yet to stop you (and we do have laws to stop some things from being said), then perhaps you need to find a better thing to say.
If a person thinks that perhaps, maybe, there's 2 genders and not 700+, they should be prevented from civic discourse? That maybe we should not be providing chemical treatments to toddlers for gender reassignment, that's hate? If they believe that math isn't actually racist, but is an objective way of making sense of reality, are they racist? How about people who criticize Islam and argue that it is a fundamentally violent ideology? That lockdowns and "scientific" COVID-19 recommendations were harmful because Florida had fewer deaths per capita than NY or CA
Today, merely speaking any of these positions gets a person called a "transphobe" or a racist or a science denier. In addition to not convincing anyone and unfairly slandering the speakers, it destroys our ability to think as a society.
Socially "acceptable" speech has never needed legal protection (in any society, liberal or authoritarian). It's the offensive things that need protection from the book burners.
- thamidolide 6y agoYour right-wing talking points are a collection of disingenuous shit: > If a person thinks that perhaps, maybe, there's 2 genders and not 700+ Nonsense comparison. No-one thinks there are 700+ genders. > That maybe we should not be providing chemical treatments to toddlers for gender reassignment Toddlers aren't being given medication for gender reassignment, this is blatantly false. > If they believe that math isn't actually racist No-one is seriously suggesting that math is racist. > How about people who criticize Islam and argue that it is a fundamentally violent ideology? Again, missing the point. The issue is when Muslims are treated badly based on stereotypes of what they believe.