When did Free Speech disappear?

System

There's a few too many people reading Russian bot memes in this thread.

"FACEBOOK SAID THIS PICTURE OF A SOLDIER IS OFFENSIVE. SHARE IF YOU DISAGREE"

Marisco

Joeskeppi wrote: »

There's a few too many people reading Russian bot memes in this thread.

"FACEBOOK SAID THIS PICTURE OF A SOLDIER IS OFFENSIVE. SHARE IF YOU DISAGREE"

And the sensible FB users amongst us, ignore that sort of rubbish :A

Redknapps_Dog

andrewf75 wrote: »

anyone who genuinely believes that is deluded

yes there are loud voices calling for minorities to be given equal rights, and rightly so

The system is still weighted against minorities and it will take time before our society is truly equal.

Again this is just the right wing snowflakes bleating because the system is slightly less weighted in their favour than before. And today those voices are most certainly the loudest - and most influential so not sure why the complaints!

A right wing snowflake has had a post of mine pulled !!

Cornucopia

Snowflakes are not right-wing - pretty much by definition.

andrewf75

Cornucopia wrote: »

Snowflakes are not right-wing - pretty much by definition.

I am aware that it is a term of abuse used by the right against the left, but this thread shows that the right are often equally over-sensitive. I made the point on the first page that it was ironic that those who complain that you can't say anything any more are the ones directing the snowflake insult at others!

Redknapps_Dog

Cornucopia wrote: »

Snowflakes are not right-wing - pretty much by definition.

but the right are equally capable of being 'censorious cry-babies'

andrewf75

Redknapps_Dog wrote: »

but the right are equally capable of being 'censorious cry-babies'

This is the definition according to google:
"Generation Snowflake, or Snowflake Generation, is a neologistic term used to characterize the young adults of the 2010s as being more prone to taking offence and less resilient than previous generations, or as being too emotionally vulnerable to cope with views that challenge their own."

so actually more a reference to age rather than left wing views, but I'd say that description fits someone like the OP and many others of her generation to a tee as well.

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Cornucopia wrote: »

Snowflakes are not right-wing - pretty much by definition.

Some of the worst snowflakism I've seen has come from right wingers.

Redknapps_Dog

andrewf75 wrote: »

This is the definition according to google:
"Generation Snowflake, or Snowflake Generation, is a neologistic term used to characterize the young adults of the 2010s as being more prone to taking offence and less resilient than previous generations, or as being too emotionally vulnerable to cope with views that challenge their own."

so actually more a reference to age rather than left wing views, but I'd say that description fits someone like the OP and many others of her generation to a tee as well.

No doubt whatsoever, they often criticise snowflakes for having a sense of entitlement. Which is a problem across all ages and social groups.

Cornucopia

Redknapps_Dog wrote: »

but the right are equally capable of being 'censorious cry-babies'

I'm not sure that it amounts to the same thing or comes from the same place. At the risk of coming to regret this: some examples might help.

As examples of "snowflake thinking", I'd cite the de-platforming of great left/liberal speakers/thinkers like Germaine Greer and Peter Tatchell. Their sin being to have slipped (possibly only marginally) from the doctrinal view of their audiences.