Posted on 07/12/2020 12:54:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The creator of The Office, Ricky Gervais, has called out the online “fascists” that want to shut down freedom of speech, saying that “if you’re mildly conservative on Twitter people call you Hitler.”
Continuing on his press tour marking the nineteenth anniversary of The Office, Gervais followed up his criticisms of cancel culture with an attack on the idea of so-called “hate speech”.
“There’s this new weird sort of fascism of people thinking they know what you can say and what you can’t and it’s a really weird thing… that there’s this new trendy myth that people who want free speech want to say awful things all the time. It’s just isn’t true, it protects everyone,” Gervais said in an interview on talkRadio.
The British actor and comedian said that people trying to shut down free speech in the name of combatting “hate speech” are “fascists” who “behind this bit the shield of goodness”, saying: “we’re good, we’re social just warriors, we’re doing this for good and what we say goes… and they don’t realize how corrupt and wrong that is.”
Reflecting on the caustic environment on social media, Gervais said: “If you’re mildly left-wing on Twitter, you’re suddenly Trotsky, right? If your mildly conservative, if you’re Hitler and if your centrist and you look at both arguments, you’re a coward.”
Ricky Gervais: Cancel Culture and ‘Outrage Mobs’ Would Make ‘The Office’ Impossible to Make Today https://t.co/M2SMv33p2F
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 11, 2020
Mr Gervais said that while he backed certain caveats on freedom of speech, such as libel and slander laws, he said that countries should never criminalise speech that “someone, somewhere, might find offensive… because someone, somewhere might find everything offensive.”
“Just because you’re offended it doesn’t mean you’re right,” he added.
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Adolf Hitler was a Wild Eyed Leftist like the average Democrat Today.
The National Socialist German Workers Party!
Ricky is awesome
I remember his speech at the Golden Globes or whatever it was priceless
Trumps view is let things burn themselves out. It’s a good strategy
I don’t think there’s going to be a lot more rioting. It’s not a good look
The call you Hitler because they HAVE NO IDEA who Hitler was and what he did. Some people are stuck on stupid.
Doesn't sound much different than the Communists he hated, does it? Well, it wasn't. Just think how much the Bolsheviks, Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries hated each other.
Saw a great Hitler cartoon this morning.
A scientist crawls out of his time machine and says “I just went back in time and killed Hitler!!”
His buddy says “Who?”
Consider the source if anyone calls you (as a conservative person) Hitler. Hitler was a far leftist national Socialist and these name-callers don’t even know this simple fact of history.
They’re so ignorant they make themselves into laughing stocks, alas.
Gervais also said mild lefties get called Trotsky, which in fact happens very rarely if at all.
Good one. Gave me a chuckle.
Countries and tech giants are NOT, for the most part, criminalizing speech that "someone, somewhere" finds offensive. People are free to offend conservative Christians, for example, any way they please.
They are criminalizing speech which their RULING ELITES find offensive.
Hitler was a far leftist national Socialist who was trying to force on the rest of us what he thought was a perfect world. How do the views of these latter-day totalitarians differ from his? Who are the real "Hitlers" in this story?
Why we post anonymously. Vicious fascists destroy peoples’ lives for thinking something that is non-PC.
true enough.
and there’s not much difference, really
Reductio ad hitlerum
I’ve been thinking about how Hitler must have thought of himself as a good person, doing the right thing. Evil people can also be “trying to be good”, but their idea of what is “good” and/or their means of achieving it are perverted.
A clue that you might be one of those people is if you path to paradise requires the brutal oppression or murder of those who don’t share your vision.
Hitler was educated in Marx’s teaching in school. He said: “I have put into practice what these peddlers and pen pushers have timidly begun”...adding that “the whole of National Socialism” was based on Marx.
I treat Gervais the same way I treat Dershowitz: I’m glad he says some nice things for our side every now and then, but he ultimately finds me repulsive (Dershowitz = pro abortion, anti gun; Gervais = arrogant athiest and anti gunner) and the feeling is mutual.
If you say thank-you and good morning...you are a racist.
Yup. That would be a clue alright
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