CDZ The Threat to Free Speech is Universal.

[Marion Morrison]

Left, right, rich and poor – millions fear expressing their opinions today.

The threat to free speech is universal

Cancel culture IS free speech. It's people expressing themselves, and their values.

Without God, there are no absolute values.
They can express themselves all the way to the ocean and jump in and feed the sharks and the crabs.

 

[dblack]

Left, right, rich and poor – millions fear expressing their opinions today.

The threat to free speech is universal

Cancel culture IS free speech. It's people expressing themselves, and their values.

Without God, there are no absolute values.

You lost me. What does that have to do with anything we're talking about.
They can express themselves all the way to the ocean and jump in and feed the sharks and the crabs.

Huh???

 

[Marion Morrison]

That deserves its own OP.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Left, right, rich and poor – millions fear expressing their opinions today.

The threat to free speech is universal

Cancel culture IS free speech. It's people expressing themselves, and their values.

Without God, there are no absolute values.

You lost me. What does that have to do with anything we're talking about.
They can express themselves all the way to the ocean and jump in and feed the sharks and the crabs.

Huh???

Exactly; Drone. Bzzzzzzzzzzzz.

 

[Dawn737]

It appears you may be in the UK, OP, where the threat to free speech might be universal. In America, it's conservatives who have their speech threatened while liberals speak freely. Here are some examples of things leftists have said in America. Notice all of these are rather hateful comments, all of these people have powerful positions and can make those who disagree with them suffer, and yet all of these people kept their positions of power after they so openly announced these things. Free speech truly does mean freedom from consequences, no matter how hateful the speech is, if the speech is leftist:

"We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him." -- Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of the La Raza Unida political party.

"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them." -- Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights

“Why is white america so reluctant to identify white college males as a problem population?”
Dr. Saida Grundy, a black professor at Boston University.

“Whiteness is most certainly and inevitably terror.” Zandria Robinson, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Memphis.

 

[Mindful]

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BRENDAN O'NEILL EDITOR​ People are still in denial about the free-speech crisis. This week, a new report on how Brexit-backing and right-leaning academics feel ostracised and silenced on campus was dismissed by woke commentators. The same people insist cancel culture is a myth. Those who moan about cancellation are just rich columnists and writers who don’t like being disagreed with, they say, wilfully overlooking the fact that vast numbers of everyday people have been reprimanded, sacked from their jobs and even questioned by police over things they’ve said online. We have to keep exposing censorship every time it occurs – whether it’s being done by the state, Silicon Valley corporations or mobs of correct-thinkers – and stand up for the right of people to say, write, utter and disseminate any opinion they like. spiked.com​