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| Topic | Should comedians be immune from criticism? |
| scar the 1 08/28/19 2:32:53 PM #23: | joe40001 posted... I guess I don't understand what you mean when you say "they shouldn't say that" if you don't mean "they shouldn't be allowed to say that". How can you tell somebody what they should and shouldn't say without telling them what they should and shouldn't say? "He shouldn't say that" is expressing an opinion on speech. "He shouldn't be allowed to say that" is expressing a desire that speech be policed. Critics will argue about why joking about certain topics is problematic and harmful, but I've yet to see many critics argue that jokes should be forbidden. That's Trump territory. There's always this defensive overreaction to critique. The very nature of critique is to analyze things in a critical light. It's not about wanting to ban speech, it's about viewing speech through a critical lens. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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