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Why whenever someone has done a image like that with a quote purporting to be someone, it is usually not true
I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It – Quote Investigator
Okay , perhaps its not Voltaire but a beautiful quote all the same, wouldn't you agree?
i think the quote is too absolutists and that some use it to try to justify horrible views and harassment without people being allowed to voice their disagreement to it.
let's say every time i walked in town, a person followed me and kept shouting abuse at me. shout that person who is harassing, bullying and being abusive towards me be protected under free speech or would it be harrassement. if i try to stop them from shouting at me by going to the gardai about harassment, would that mean that i was trying to suppress free speech?
so quotes like that that are miscredited to voltaire are used as a way to justify harassment, bullying, racism, trolly, transphobia and hatred without being allowed to be called out for harassment, bullying, racism, trollish, transphobia and hatred.
allowing unquestioned harassment, bullying, racism, trolly, transphobia and hatred on every internet forum will just mean that every internet forum becomes a big trollfest where the ones who just want to talk and have fun and get away from the stresses of the world. this is people's free time (or work time depending on when people are using it)
credit for image: reductress.com
By restricting, stopping free speech (or hate speech) doesn't solve the underlying problems. It doesn't stop racists from being racist; Transphobes from being Transphobic , Homophobes from being homophobic, Islamophobes from being Islamophobic; nor sexists from being sexist are any other phobes for that matter. All it succeeds in doing is preventing them from spouting their views, thus preventing rational debate and the chance to debunk what they are saying, which is how you change opinion, how you change culture.
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This seems to me to be a sense of entitlement that because there certain so they must automatically be given a platform and can often serve of legitimising transphobia, racism, homophobia.
Same with Shakira, there are other stations that will play Shakira or I could go Spotify, youtube or my mp3s of Shakira songs or my Shakira CDs. Dan hegarty doesn't have to play her just because someone demands that he plays her.
I think Black Grape should walk the fuck away
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