Facebook, people, and hate speech
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My personal view is that speech should be free, hate or otherwise. One of the primary problems in the world today is this "protected mode" existence where a sector are "offended" by hate speech and want it banned.
This "safe space" mentality is a prime mover in the "pc" impetus and as such is a detrement to a free and open society. It turns us into an intolerant population of twits who cannot function in the throes of reality.
The value of "freedom of speech" is the ability to know from where a person positions themself in their sphere of existence. If that existence is offensive then the offended should simply shun the presence where ever it happens to arise.
Instead we find these people wanting to squash the rights of others to save themselves some modicum of offense in life. Therein lay the problem with this bunch of hoity toity patent leather types who would just as soon suppress you as look at you all in the name of "their" view of "correctness".
There are times and places for polite company. How you comport yourself in those various venues available to you is an indication of just who you are and where you stand. I, for one would prefer knowing that from your own expressions of idea ... not some watered down version a Yale grad accustomed to "safe spaces" and that sweet nothingness called their lack of reality can accommodate without screaming in protest.
I make no bones about it. If I believe it, I'm going to say it and I really remain unconcerned as to who gets offended. This is the nature of freedom of speech. This is who we are and we are not going down the revisionist apologetic path concoted by some misinformed manipulative would-be educator.
Freedom of speech is a constitutional right and not subject to the whims of those who would claim it implies a requirement for any level of polite interaction or any other predicating condition anyone might want to impose upon it.
So I get my share of hate mail. So there are those on the earth who hate me. There are likewise a segment of populace at the other end of that spectrum and I am satisfied with who I am and what I say. So whine on about it all you like. I'm remaining me and I'm fresh out of apologies for what I think or say. It's reality and you can just deal with it.
America
My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From ev'ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!
Samuel Francis Smith