You Are Perfectly Free to Say Nice Things- Book Review, "Freedom From Speech"

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Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 11 months ago

If someone gets offended by the words of another it is because they CHOOSE to be...so they can then get righteously vicious in their condemning, tissue holding, intolerant, finger pointing. Which, apparently, is easier for them than just coming up with a well reasoned argument.

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  Posted by edweaver 9 years, 11 months ago
  
  Well how offensive is that! Kidding! You nailed it. I can't tell you how many times I've said the same thing. I'm still a believer in the stick & stones thing.
  
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    Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 11 months ago
    
    Me too...I'm also a sayer of "oh grow up" and "get over yourself". :)
    
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  Posted by khalling 9 years, 11 months ago
  
  wow
  
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    Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 11 months ago
    
    No?
    
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      Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 11 months ago
      
      Yes.
      
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        Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 11 months ago
        
        Whew!
        
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Posted by mckenziecalhoun 9 years, 11 months ago

I'm very offended by all of this.
And you all OWE it to me to stop talking about it.
Ummm...where did everyone go? Anyone there?
Anyone...?
...
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  Posted by mckenziecalhoun 9 years, 11 months ago
  
  Maybe there should be a consequence for demanding a consequence because one is offended?
  
  I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
  Fannie Lou Hamer
  
  I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.
  Steven Adler
  
  The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
  Sydney Madwed
  
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    Posted by mckenziecalhoun 9 years, 11 months ago
    
    Bill Cosby: "And tired" always followed sick. Worst beating I ever got in my life, my mother said, "I am just sick..." And I said, "And tired." I don't remember anything after that.
    
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Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 11 months ago

didn't this start with "hate speech" and "hate crime" --
concepts which live in redundancy like "period red" and
"arrest-me red," colors which friends have called
their favorite rides, a bronco and a corvette, respectively.

if you're pissed because I'm breathing your air,
it is not hate-worthy, and you are free to despise
without *government* intrusion, as you wish!!! -- j

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  Posted by Hiraghm 9 years, 11 months ago
  
  "hate speech" and "hate crime" are just euphemisms for "thoughtcrime". I'll never understand why it's not acceptable to hate Bob because he's male, black, gay, old, young, whatever, but perfectly acceptable to hate Bob because he's... Bob.
  
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Posted by Hiraghm 9 years, 11 months ago

While posting from Coventry... I find the entire thread of this conversation hilariously hypocritical.
Long-time gulch members will understand why.

Thankfully, the hilarity has not yet been made complete with a comment by khalling... :)

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  Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 11 months ago
  
  hey, guy! howya doing? -- j
  
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    Posted by Hiraghm 9 years, 11 months ago
    
    Oh, keeping busy. Arguing like hell in defense of Walmart over on Youtube, among other things. How bout you?
    
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Posted by mccannon01 9 years, 11 months ago

I am sooooooo totally offended by all this speech I DEMAND recompense!!! Please send precious metal coins, rounds, or bullion to...

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Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 11 months ago

Having been in the publishing business and printing controversial stories, I can tell you first hand about unfair revues. It's particularly frustrating when the reviewers criticize the best parts without understanding them and latch on to inconsequentialities to make their points. Read most revues of A.S. and the only thing you can say is "Wha?" They don't even come close to getting it. It boils down to most readers being smarter than most reviewers.

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  Posted by plusaf 9 years, 11 months ago
  
  Herb, you saw this one, right?
  http://thefederalist.com/2014/08/19/all-...
  
  I added the link to my "No, it's Not" page at http://www.plusaf.com/no-its-not/_no-its...
  
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Posted by allosaur 9 years, 11 months ago

Comrade citizens, are there any racists here?

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  Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 11 months ago
  
  When I was working a summer job in high school (shipping dept of a factory) one of the adults who worked there was a black/brown guy partly of african decent. Sometime in the first week I was there he pulled me aside and asked me. "Are you prejudiced?"
  I answered, "Everyone is prejudiced in some way."
  
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    Posted by allosaur 9 years, 11 months ago
    
    My good dino Dr. Jekyll side hates cockroaches. They draw out the serial killer psycho in me. I have even laughed at their ghastly deaths.
    
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      Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 11 months ago
      
      My gf applauds your good taste and productivity.
      
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        Posted by allosaur 9 years, 11 months ago
        
        LOL! I never thought of it that way.
        
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  Posted by livefreely 9 years, 11 months ago
  
  Sure hasn't everyone been accused by now?
  
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    Posted by allosaur 9 years, 11 months ago
    
    Just about. Why am I thinking of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells?
    
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