Amazing how so many things in a 'Free Society' become intolerable.
I don't agree with everything he says, but Jordan Peterson was right. Democratic Gov't should not legislate what people say. Step-by-step, we're turning into the very same fascists we demonize.
This “free speech protection” take is EXACTLY what racists always say to us to justify their racism towards us Black people.
When Germany lost in WW2 they went into an intense process of denazifying destroying all images of Nazi ideology and made it against the law to display or glorify Nazi ideology. On top of that, it was mandatory to learn about WW2 for every citizen, this is still the case TIL THIS DAY. This was a necessary limitation of freedom of speech that was crucial given the history of Jews in Germany and completely correct to do.
Does this mean everything is all good and there are no Nazi’s in Germany? No.
But on a systemic level it was a great morally correct move to protect a minority group and keep Nazism minimal.
Imagine if people over there in Germany would now say
“well, I don’t wanna learn about that” or “I just wanna freely say slurs specifically for them and spit Nazi ideology” because, you know.. “free speech”.
Any sane person should know that is just ridiculous.
Now let’s apply this to the Black Diaspora.
If America or any European nation would try to make it illegal and punishable with prison time to call Black people racial slurs.
Would
you REALLY protest
side-by-side with RACISTS and argue “protect free speech”
to protect their “right” to call YOU,
the N word freely?
Be fukkin forreal
Freedom of Speech should end where hatespeech towards minorities with a history of limited basic human rights and subjugation leading to death starts.
Non-Black people should go to fukkin JAIL for anti-Black hatespeech towards US.
Just like hatespeech towards LGBT people should be punishable with prison time.
Uganda just passed a law to justify killing LGBT people and nikkas laughing like that doesn’t mean genocide of their own Black people who happen to be LGBT.
These kinds of systemic changes to protect vulnerable minority groups should be encouraged by any decent human being.
Brazil did a good thing to protect their basic human rights on a systemic level.