jgordon1111 wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:jgordon1111 wrote:
Well the problem may be poltical correctness has in some instances replaced freedom of speech WHICH IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT IN AMERICA
"Freedom of speech" means that the government cannot jail you for saying something it does not like. It does not mean I cannot call you a moron as often as I like.
Correct you are mets, if you choose to disagree with what I or anyone says, personally I care not a whit what anyone thinks or says or me as long as its not lies. I make my choices based on things I have read or learned for myself not someone else's opinions, can you say the same?
JG nailed it. I too am totally cool with other people having a different opinion. Afterall, with each of us having totally different educations, experiences, life lessons, example ratios, parenting etc, it's totally understandable some people are going to have a different take on things based on different needs and perceptions. I take the Constitution very seriously, and right up at the top is #1, the Freedom of Speech. I've pointed out before, when I was growing up, I used to hear people say all the time 'this is a free country, I can say whatever I want.' Today, and not exactly through any direct fault of their own, many people (mostly younger) are all 'YOU CAN'T SAY THAT!' But looking at this another way, p.c. eichmann peeps really are championing themselves as absolutely correct, and anyone who even asks about any possible different opinions are basically cast out into crazy town, mocked, called all kinds of hateful names and what's worse the p.c. peeps start casting horrible judgments up and down and all around, many times upon the first chatter with a person they have never even met one time in their entire lives! It's pretty clear to me many p.c. types are not only the exact definition of the virile hatred they project unto everyone else, but an awful lot of it is also mindless. I get how they think their hate is justified. I am hard pressed to imagine a more dangerous combination of hatred and mindlessness, and political correctness is exactly the kind of danger Lincoln and others warned about so long ago.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves
A long list of things you can't say, can't do, can't
feelz, can't think. Just look at that Star Wars thread about the kid with the gun on his shirt... He has the right to own and carry a gun, and today's
public education system cannot even tolerate a picture of something which is our right! Scary, eh? And I won't leave out the college system either. Just look at what universities used to symbolize only 2 generations ago. They were bastions of free speech, today some students run to authority crying because their precious feelz got hurt and actually getting people fired over it. Just one thing in closing, popular speech usually does not need any protection. It's unpopular speech that needs protection the most, that also being the bedrock of our principles of Freedom and Liberty. Whenever I see groups of people trying to ban words and speech and the sharing of ideas, I literally see a DIRECT attack on America and our most important Constitutional amendment, the 1st Amendment. I am suddenly understanding ever more clearly just what meaning of the phrase is....
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist