16 Mar 2021, 12:55 am
Ball wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
binstein wrote:
Ball wrote:
RIP Pepe. You just got cancelled (of course)
George Orwell's prophecy is closer than ever.
A tad overdramatic don't you think?
On a seperate note It always amuses me how the same people who laud the robustness of western civilisation are so frightened of the downfall of civilisation due to not being able to watch some crap cartoon
Free speech is not about being able to watch some "crap cartoon". Free speech is the mechanism by which a free society fixes problems. If you cannot openly discuss controversial subjects out of fear of being cancelled, no problems can be brought up let alone solutions found. When a subject is politically incorrect, the problems grow and fester until they blow up as unresolvable crisis like the grooming gang problem in many UK communities or the issue of sexually confused children. Everyone is going to have their own take and prejudices, but opinions are not problematic and actual effecatious solutions can be argued in good faith without demonizing the other side.
No, that isn't being overly dramatic.
↑ THIS, quoted for truth.
16 Mar 2021, 12:58 am
cyberdad wrote:
Ball wrote:
When a subject is politically incorrect, the problems grow and fester until they blow up as unresolvable crisis like the grooming gang problem in many UK communities or the issue of sexually confused children. Everyone is going to have their own take and prejudices, but opinions are not problematic and actual effecatious solutions can be argued in good faith without demonizing the other side.
I do hope you are not referring to racist and transphobic people being allowed express their prejudices?
Gang violence can be dealt with using culturally sensitive policies rather than blaming an entire ethnic group and sexually confused children should be nurtured and cared for not vilified. It's not rocket science.
You don't need a sledgehammer to deal with vulnerable people who pose some type of existential threat to people paranoid about minorities who bemoan freedom of speech but enthusiastically cancel other people's rights.
I would like people to be able to talk about gang-stalking, without them being intimidated by the threat of them being gang-stalked themselves.
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16 Mar 2021, 1:36 am
16 Mar 2021, 2:47 am
Pepe wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Interesting to see "Con the fruiterer" has gone the way of the dinosaur (or is it dodo?), along with other embarrassing "Australiana" like Hey hey it's Saturday" and the "Paul Hogan Show" (*cringe*)
I didn't take it seriously and found Australian humour enjoyable.
The Aussie larrikin era was a kak.
I am not a virtue-signaller, though.
When I was in University in the 1980s it was considered an illicit (but fun) pastime for the "boys" to gather around for a beer and put on a tape of Rodney Rude making racist and sexist jokes. I tolerated it because it was so widespread and I couldn't do anything but even back then it made me cringe.
18 Mar 2021, 7:12 pm
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18 Mar 2021, 7:16 pm
Ball wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Ball wrote:
When a subject is politically incorrect, the problems grow and fester until they blow up as unresolvable crisis like the grooming gang problem in many UK communities or the issue of sexually confused children. Everyone is going to have their own take and prejudices, but opinions are not problematic and actual effecatious solutions can be argued in good faith without demonizing the other side.
I do hope you are not referring to racist and transphobic people being allowed express their prejudices?
Gang violence can be dealt with using culturally sensitive policies rather than blaming an entire ethnic group and sexually confused children should be nurtured and cared for not vilified. It's not rocket science.
You don't need a sledgehammer to deal with vulnerable people who pose some type of existential threat to people paranoid about minorities who bemoan freedom of speech but enthusiastically cancel other people's rights.
So positing that a sexually confused child is wrong is transphobic but enabling sexual confusion is nurturing? Genuine question, because this is exactly the kind of mess we get into when we aren't allowed to flesh problems out in public. Instead of being charitable of other opinions, invectives are used to stifle debate and discussion. We can't show our concern that bad decisions are being made out of political correctness so instead any problems that will result will fester and continue the end result being ruined lives in the name of compassion.
What if they're not 'sexually confused' and they know damn well what their gender is and that it isn't what their body is?
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