05-20-2019, 07:47 PM
(05-20-2019, 05:46 PM)anagogy Wrote:(05-20-2019, 05:10 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote:Quote:draconian social control laws
Like those that charge women with murder for getting an abortion or having a suspicious miscarriage, even if they are raped? Do you have an example of a law that you know that has passed recently that limits free speech in a "draconian" way? I'm really asking specifically in the US, but I would accept any other examples of where this is happening, because I like to be woke about these things, too, and if it's a real problem, actively denounce it as well.
In the US it is mostly just SJW trying to shame or harass people into submission if they say something they don't like. Like someone will express an opinion, and these *psychopaths* will do everything in their power to get them fired from their job for it. In Canada you have the compelled speech law bill C16 which basically made it illegal to not use made up pronouns, of which there are an infinite variety, for "new genders". But I think this is just the beginning. There are people in the US trying to pass laws for similar things, and then they will keep pushing the envelope once they get their foot in the door. Next you know, it will be illegal to say other words (whatever those end up being). It is a slippery slope, and once we start sliding, free speech will disappear quickly because people in power don't want the "commoners" to have it. It is inconvenient for them.
Fox News? Prager University? I'm actually kind of shocked, I wouldn't consider either of these legitimate sources of truthful information in any way whatsoever. I watched them, too, and my discernment tells me that they are just dripping with propaganda. Sorry, anagogy. I also don't believe a word Jordan Peterson says, after his disinfo campaign to try to hijack a bill that was about protecting people in the same ways that others are protected into making it look like it is meant to attack people and remove free speech. In my opinion this is a gross misinterpretation to incite people to unintentionally support division. I realize know we have divergent points of view on this. I agree it's a slippery slope, but it's also such a weird hill for so many people to be dying on these days. I wish we could have this many people being as passionate as they are about their defense of their freedom to harass a transgendered person as about well, basically any one of the legitimate threats to human liberty that affect the absolute vast majority of us.
I'm not afraid of restriction of freedom of speech. To me, this seems like a projection of a yellow and blue ray blockage. If someone silences me about something I am truly passionate about, which they have actually, on quite a large political scale even that involved a lot of money, I'm just going to find another platform to get my thoughts out to people who want to hear them. I can't even picture what the actual removal of freedom of speech looks like in the days of the internet. No matter how much they try to control the web, the more people will find ways to get around it. Even in that article I linked, most of the victims of deplatforming had found other platforms or just created a new account and started over. It just seems like, ultimately, something I'm not smelling the smoke for, yet. Yet trans people actually are losing their lives because of transphobia, whether suicide or murder/homicide. The fire is burning. Your video is about one teacher fired over the wrong use of pronouns - what about the countless people who were fired just because they were transgendered? Do you feel any outrage or sympathy for them?