Posted on 05/25/2016 8:41:15 PM PDT by Jookos
Sometimes the end justifies the means don’t you think?
“Sometimes the end justifies the means don’t you think?’
NO I don’t think so at all. If you lose your moral foundation, your principals, you have lost everything. Once you have lost your moral compass you need to shut down those who disagree with you because deep down you know the truth and its easier not to deal with it.
State repression of freespeech is tyranny.
Repression of freespeech by mob violence is tyranny.
A privately-owned website ejecting people is simple freedom of association.
Set up your own site, troll.
“Set up your own site, troll.”
Idjoit...I was responding to the OP.
exactly what the Nazi’s did
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Grammar “Nazi’s” should be along soon.
Lol!
I hate Illinois Nazis.
JK Rowling:
“Intolerance of alternative viewpoints is spreading to places that make me, a moderate and a liberal, most uncomfortable. Only last year we saw an online petition to ban Donald Trump from entry into the UK. It garnered half a million signatures. Now, I find almost everything that Mr. Trump says objectionable. I consider him offensive and bigoted. But he has my full support to come to my country and be offensive and bigoted there.
His freedom to speak protects my freedom to call him a bigot. His freedom guarantees mine. Unless we take that absolute position without caveats or apologies, we have set foot upon a road with only one destination.
If my offended feelings can constitute a travel ban on Donald Trump, I have no moral grounds on which to argue that those offended by feminism or the right for transgender rights or universal suffrage should not oppress campaigners for those causes. If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they have offended you, you have crossed a line to stand along tyrants who imprison, torture and kill on exactly the same justification.”
http://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11689244/jk-rowling-donald-trump-free-speech
Liberals and other liars are very fond of squashing dissenting opinions because they cannot win in the marketplace of ideas.
They also fear exposure, both of their lies and to conflicting information.
This is why websites like democrat underground and others are so quick to ban voices that do not support their chosen candidate.
Good for Rowling. And nice to see there are still youngsters who haven’t fallen sway to the leftist stuff.
However, with all due respect, I’d say that Voltaire, if anything, would have in reality been the type to actually gin up the anti-free speech mobs even WITH his quote. Don’t forget, he also tried to render Christianity extinct, not allow for ANY Christian voices within his university system. His idea of “freedom of speech” is to silence any Christian thought, so if anything, he’s closer to the snowflake SJWs, alongside his French Enlightenment buddies. Read this if you don’t believe me, per Timothy Dwight’s sermon:
http://www.wnd.com/2006/04/35810/#LFe1HvZ0eTHxBBmT.99
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