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Irish Green Party member says bill 'restricting freedom' is for 'the common good'
Human Events ^ | June 15, 2023 | C.G. Jones

Posted on 11/28/2023 6:57:07 AM PST by lowbridge

Irish Green Party Senator Pauline O'Reilly recently defended her government's hate speech bill by suggesting that it is necessary to restrict people's freedoms by censoring gender-related speech that could make some feel "insecure" or uncomfortable.

She said: "When you think about [it], all legislation is about the restriction of freedom. That's exactly what we're doing here. We are restricting freedom, but we're doing it for the common good."

"You will see throughout our Constitution, yes, you have rights, [but] they are restricted for the common good. Everything needs to be balanced. And if your views on other people's identities go to make their lives unsafe, insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live in peace, then I believe that it is our job as legislators to restrict those freedoms for the common good."

The bill in question is The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offenses) Act 2022, which is an update to a 1989 law. The Catholic News Agency reported that the country's Department of Justice could consider the 1989 iteration of the law "ineffective," citing that "new technological developments and newly prominent minorities such as people of different races and religions, persons with disabilities, and those who identify as LGBTQ."

The bill states: "Hate speech is designed to shut people down, to shut them up, to make them afraid to say who they are and to exclude and isolate them. There is nothing free about that, and there is, frankly, no place for it in our society.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: fartyshadesofgreen; gaza; hamas; ireland
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1 posted on 11/28/2023 6:57:07 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
Why is this surprising? Communists think this about everything.
2 posted on 11/28/2023 6:59:09 AM PST by fhayek
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To: lowbridge

Well. Of course.


3 posted on 11/28/2023 6:59:11 AM PST by JusPasenThru (ESG is a hunting license on Republicans.)
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To: lowbridge

Well if the Green Party is for it then it must be a good idea /s


4 posted on 11/28/2023 7:00:19 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: lowbridge

God hates sin. Communists hate God.


5 posted on 11/28/2023 7:02:12 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: fhayek

” “Hate speech is designed to shut people down, to shut them up, to make them afraid to say who they are and to exclude and isolate them...”

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OH THE IRONY!

The government is the only one with the ‘authority’ to comit hate speech, by their own definition of it.


6 posted on 11/28/2023 7:02:13 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: lowbridge

When did uncomfortable become an excuse for taking away a person’s rights, and why does it always only go one way?


7 posted on 11/28/2023 7:03:18 AM PST by redangus ( )
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To: lowbridge

There are constitutional exceptions to free speech in the US..incitement, slander etc. and I suppose they are for the “common good” as well.


8 posted on 11/28/2023 7:03:34 AM PST by yetidog
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To: z3n

OH THE IRONY!

The government is the only one with the ‘authority’ to comit hate speech, by their own definition of it.

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Yeah...I was immediately thinking the same thing. The sheer audacity of saying something like this cannot be lost on the general public. Just how hypocritical can people like this be?


9 posted on 11/28/2023 7:04:27 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: lowbridge

Does it shut up the pronoun people too? That’s what I want.


10 posted on 11/28/2023 7:05:29 AM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: lowbridge

The EU/WEF/DAVOS types will achieve in 30 years what England could not achieve in 300 - the elimination of Irish Nationhood


11 posted on 11/28/2023 7:05:52 AM PST by PGR88
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To: lowbridge

She said: “When you think about [it], all legislation is about the restriction of freedom. That’s exactly what we’re doing here. We are restricting freedom, but we’re doing it for the common good.”


Folks, read it slowly and let your lips move.............


12 posted on 11/28/2023 7:06:31 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: lowbridge

-——Theodore Dalrymple———

“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that
the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not
to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to
reality the better.

When people are forced to remain silent when they
are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced
to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense
of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become
evil oneself.

One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even
destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think
if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is
intended to.”

Written by Theodore Dalrymple


13 posted on 11/28/2023 7:12:07 AM PST by Bob434
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To: lowbridge

The Irish government needs to listen to its people and should allow them to speak their mind.

A boiler not vented can explode.


14 posted on 11/28/2023 7:13:22 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: lowbridge

Well! How very...communist.


15 posted on 11/28/2023 7:15:53 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: lowbridge

Allowing women to vote was a terrible idea.

Just terrible.

L


16 posted on 11/28/2023 7:18:36 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: lowbridge

When they say that everyone knows they mean the exact opposite.


17 posted on 11/28/2023 7:19:05 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“common good”

Irish rich are getting higher rents.

The migrants are getting more money and stuff.

The native born working class Irish have fewer opportunities and have to pay more in rent.


18 posted on 11/28/2023 7:19:56 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: PubliusMM

And I’m supposed to be worried about Putin?


19 posted on 11/28/2023 7:20:47 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge

Migration is not the answer to worldwide poverty.

There are not enough living wage jobs in Ireland, the UK and the USA and never will be.


20 posted on 11/28/2023 7:22:24 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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