CDZ Do you consider a country free when 62% of its people are afraid to express an opinion? Simple Yes or NO please.

[krichton]

But if they are prosecuted and imprisoned for making a politically incorrect statement, are they really free?

Isn't that "under duress" in legal parlance?

Can you name a single case where someone was prosecuted and imprisoned for being politically incorrect?

 

[jc456]

Can you name a single case where someone was prosecuted and imprisoned for being politically incorrect?

Every woman

 

[EdwinAMartin]

LEft wing thuggery, lawfare, and terrorism.

 

[westwall]

Just like Charlie Kirk

Just think...I know it's hard for you, but just think for a minute...you approve of murdering someone for the things they say.

So don't start crying when your peeps start getting murdered for the things that they say.

You set the rules, so now you will get to die by them too.

And that's a sad world you choose to live in.

 

[PeterPilot]

Can you name a single case where someone was prosecuted and imprisoned for being politically incorrect?

Yes, the woman (Turkish?) woman arrested by ICE in Boston a few years back, eventually released after a few months in holding facilities, for having written article critical of Israel in school paper.

Video shows moment ICE arrested Tufts University doctoral student

The arrest of PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk follows a string of similar incidents targeting international students

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Captain Caveman]

To determine how "free" the folk are in a country, it's based on a number of indices. To cherry pick and prey on one example to determine freedom is laughable -

List of freedom indices - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The USA is about 70th.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

'Free' to do what? Rape little boys? Murder Xians without fear of being arrested? Free to loot Asian owned liquor stores?

 

[jc456]

'Free' to do what? Rape little boys? Murder Xians without fear of being arrested? Free to loot Asian liquor stores?

yes, that is freedom. It's why we have a judicial system to take those assholes to jail.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

The slow destruction of ideas by the destruction (or redefinition) of the words used to express them.

^the schematic for silence^...with social education as the anesthetic

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Of course not.

Between the hyper-partisan political environment we're in, PC, Identity Politics and Cancel Culture, I can't blame anyone for keeping their mouths shut.

Freedom of expression is the most liberal of all American values, and we're going in exactly the opposite direction.

Yes. I find that's been quite obvious for a good long while. Why do citizens of the US assume the constitution gives us the right to speak without consequence from society? Is it because some people are right on the edge of our tolerance for each other?