It's easy to argue for free speech when it's not you or your children in the firing line | Nyadol Nyuon

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The ‘right to be a bigot’ ceases to exist without a target. We need to accept hate speech has consequences

What did you hear when Adam Goodes was booed? Did you hear racism? Many Australians didn’t, but, to many Indigenous people, the boos were “a howl of humiliation. A howl that echoes across two centuries of invasion, dispossession and suffering.”

 

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JBoreo316 There is no argument for free speech we have the right to speak freely if you are being harrassed it can be reported and dealt with

Human dignity is inviolable... Emmanuel Kant. Is this not the basis of European constitution? If Britain or the US were to adopt this into their basic law / constitution, it may inform the free speech argument. Freedom to express yourself unless you violate the dignity of others

Its easy to argue against free speech, when it is not the things you want to say that will be inmediately shut down.

Its V easy to argue for free speech when u accept ur minority status and respect the wishes of the majority that hosts u where u so dearly love to live. And realise that if u don't want to hear it, then it's your choice not to go back to somewhere where you are in the majority.

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Free speech. The very purpose of the idea is based on having dialogue so as to clarify beliefs into ideal truths. Ideal truth is how the world is minus our emotions, senses, culture and self-interests and, in short, human fallibility.

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