Offensive Speech

Townhall.com ^ | May 7, 2014 | John Stossel

[skeeter]

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[skeeter]

I don't hear millions claiming what the NBA did is illegal under the Constitution.

However, what was done to the man was immoral and against the spirit of our basic founding principles.

And if tolerated WILL eventually lead to an environment where widespread governmental censorship is accepted practice.

[hal ogen]

That’s probably not all they want to “shove down our throats”.

[grania]

By the reasoning in this article, which makes a lot of sense, I will exercise my right to have nothing to do with the NBA that is willing, even eager, to punish someone for what they say in their own home.

I wonder if this incident might make billionaire potential and current NBA owners very nervous about what would happen if someone wanted to buy their team.

[driftless2]

Yeah, I always want to put that in quotation marks, but it sounds a little more appropriate than say “forcing their lifestyle on people.”

[Responsibility2nd]

This changed in just two decades, he says, because there was open debate. Gay people "had no real political power, only the force of our arguments. But in a society where free exchange is the rule, that was enough."

If Stossel wants to argue for free speech; he sure is picking a bad example here. No other group wants to silence thoughts and words like the Gaystapo.

[IrishBrigade]

Unless they are White, Republican, Southern, Christian, Gun Owners, Heterosexual, etc. Then one may hurl invective with impunity.

...you left out number one on that list...male...

[IrishBrigade]

Gay people “had no real political power, only the force of our arguments

...the writer of this statement is flat out wrong...gays have had tremendous political clout for the last two decades...and enormously deep pockets to pick in Hollywood and academia...

[spindoctor]

Precisely. Hollywood and numerous media outlets have been promoting homosexuality as if it is something normal; and relentlessly bashing Christian values. The objective is to get the individual to "perceive" that society accepts the abnormal behavior. It's taken a couple of decades to achieve that effect. In opinion surveys, people glaringly overestimate the percentage of homosexuals in society. No need to wonder why that is.

One more thing... Freepers know how to pick the BS out of the story.

[RipSawyer]

In America today, the market punishes racists aggressively.

No they don’t. They punish whites aggressively.
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Totally politically incorrect but absolutely, unequivocally true! You can be as racist as you wannabe if you are or at least CLAIM TO BE nonwhite. Actually you can still be as racist as you wannabe and call yourself white as long as you are a self-hating racist who tells the world how ashamed he is to be white.