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Old 03-04-2016, 02:03 AM
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Default Re: Freethought Forum My Ass!

What's the count on "I thought this was a freeTHOUGHT forum" meltdowns now? It's got to be in the dozens.

Anyway, what people don't seem to understand is that the principle of free speech doesn't actually require any private citizens to give your views even a cursory hearing, or even to give you a platform to express them. It's particularly amusing when asshats like this one fail to understand that, since if his authoritarianism were to be enacted as political policy it's entirely likely that our free speech laws would fall by the wayside. It's gotten to the point where yammering too much about "free speech" is pretty reliably an indicator of someone with racist, sexist, homophobic and/or transphobic views who wants a platform to spew those views without anyone criticising them for it (and in many cases, they also erroneously think it gives them the right to harass or threaten women and minorities without repercussion). I've got news for you: the principle of free speech gives others just as much right to ignore or criticise you as you have to spew your venom, and there is no right to harass or threaten anyone.

Basically, Randall sums it up well:



Anyway, please keep complaining about the lack of Freethought here. We thrive on the tears of people like you.
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