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If I declare my hate for gay people I'll be ostracised, is that also violence against me? Why should the law be getting involved in the social dynamics of ostr
by benj111 4y ago
If I declare my hate for gay people I'll be ostracised, is that also violence against me?
Why should the law be getting involved in the social dynamics of ostracism?
Free speech doesn't mean you only get to hear what you want to hear.
- anon84873628 4y agoBecause the paradox of tolerance
- benj111 4y agoAren't both sides being intolerant? One side is "I hate gays" the other is 'thats violence and I'll lock you up' Half the problem with today's 'progressive' politics is that it's intolerance dressed up as tolerance. And Im not a right winger by any stretch.
- denton-scratch 4y ago> Free speech doesn't mean you only get to hear what you want to hear. (I'm assuming you're speaking of US 1st Amendment free speech) I don't think it means anything about what I hear. I choose what I hear: I take in a bit of TV news, and some radio. I follow a few blogs. Nobody is obliged to consume Faceache and Twaddle. Your question: No, being ostracised isn't violence. Boycotts are not violence. If I prefer not to meet you or deal with you, that isn't violence. Violence would be forcing me to deal with an anti-gay bigot when I don't want to. Does that help?