Suppose you bought tickets to a show, or a concert, or a movie, and someone decided that, no, you should not get to see or hear that which you chose, of your own volition, to attend.
I think they're a pack of spoiled narcissists, who don't give a flying rat's ass about others' rights. I'm sure they have wholly convinced themselves that they are on the side of Right, and that their actions are not only defensible but necessary, but I figure that some of them have never thought it through and the rest are just thugs who've made up excuses to thug.
This is a common trope among the left - to compare words to "poison" in justifying their refusal to listen. My response would be - "what if I think YOUR words are poison? Does that give me the right to shout you down? Or do you have a monopoly on what is poison?"
"puddles of pathetic performance art" - what a perfect picture of these pernicious pansies.
It is amazing to have come to a point in this country where speech, the freedom of which is a foundational tenet, is now equated by many with violence. I can understand people believing some of what is now called "music" to be an assault on the ears (and maybe the sensibilities), but to not be able to allow someone to talk for fear of the speaker saying something with which one disagrees reveals an immaturity matched only by the idiocy of the ideas to which these adult children cling.
Some of them are indeed sniveling snowflakes (to use an overused cliche) who mistake this sort of "look at me" outrage for actual strength, and who'd not dare take even the slightest risk in protesting. Others simply don't believe in liberty, and instead want their form of fascism to dominate.
This idea that the general public cannot be trusted to hear words that haven't been filtered through a euphemism machine without turning into violent bigots has morphed into this phenomenon of protesting free speech.
I think this goes back to the response to bullying in Schools and then on Social Media.
That Words hurt and cause real harm.
which then morphed into Words are violence.
this in the protestors minds make the disruptions justified.
they think they are protecting victims.
I think they're a pack of spoiled narcissists, who don't give a flying rat's ass about others' rights. I'm sure they have wholly convinced themselves that they are on the side of Right, and that their actions are not only defensible but necessary, but I figure that some of them have never thought it through and the rest are just thugs who've made up excuses to thug.
Of course THEIR words don’t count.
Their response to you would be "I don't have to drink a little poison to know it's poison."
And, go....
My response would be "you don't have to attend."
They'd argue, I suspect, that my mind would be "poisoned" by bad words, and I'd tell them "are you that weak?"
This is a common trope among the left - to compare words to "poison" in justifying their refusal to listen. My response would be - "what if I think YOUR words are poison? Does that give me the right to shout you down? Or do you have a monopoly on what is poison?"
"puddles of pathetic performance art" - what a perfect picture of these pernicious pansies.
It is amazing to have come to a point in this country where speech, the freedom of which is a foundational tenet, is now equated by many with violence. I can understand people believing some of what is now called "music" to be an assault on the ears (and maybe the sensibilities), but to not be able to allow someone to talk for fear of the speaker saying something with which one disagrees reveals an immaturity matched only by the idiocy of the ideas to which these adult children cling.
Some of them are indeed sniveling snowflakes (to use an overused cliche) who mistake this sort of "look at me" outrage for actual strength, and who'd not dare take even the slightest risk in protesting. Others simply don't believe in liberty, and instead want their form of fascism to dominate.
This idea that the general public cannot be trusted to hear words that haven't been filtered through a euphemism machine without turning into violent bigots has morphed into this phenomenon of protesting free speech.