From: SmartMuffin | #024
Throwing people in prison for saying something you don't like is hardly a "new" concept, you know?
True, I'm just saying it's a shame how anti-progress you seem to be. There comes a time where "omg the first amendment" gets kind of outdated by the times.
I don't believe in the silly slippery slope idea that "you have to allow 100% freedom of speech all the time, or else you are letting people decide what is and isn't OK to say". It should be clear to anyone with a basic level of social skill what is and isn't "OK" to say. The "negative" is basically that less and less stuff will become acceptable which is, in the end, slippery slope fallacy.
Me pointing out the differences between black people and white people in a clear and objective manner is not racist and should not be perceived as racist. Me saying Fabrice Muamba is a stupid n who deserves to die because of that demonstrably is, and should not be acceptable in modern society. I don't want to live in a society where that can be said with no legal repurcussions. I welcome the jailing of that kind of person; in the scheme of things 56 days is a slap on the wrist but it's a decent enough punishment. The "opinion" that a black person deserves to die purely because of that should not be tolerated. We need to move past that kind of thing
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