For decades now, people have asserted that I have the right to be abused, misrepresented, and et cetera.
This pisses me off so much.
I have been demonized for who I am since elementary school for my autism. I’ve been demonized since middle school for questioning my sexuality. I’ve been demonized since high school for not believing in God.
Now, that I’m in college and have to deal with the “alt-right” calling me a “millennial special snowflake triggered cancer SJW” for just being who I am, I’m going to say loud and proud that I HATE FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
Here come the mobs calling me a Nazi.
I say thanks for the compliment.
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Hate speech is not a part of freedom of speech. Don’t let the alt-right sell you their bullshit ideology. Though that’s easier said than done since it’s everywhere these days.
Freedom of speech is a good thing… But abusing it by engaging in hate speech is not.
Shitty people are the problem. (Like usual)
I’m sorry, but I find free speech to be the most overrated concept that humans have ever imagined, and it just doesn’t exist in my world.
Democracy and free speech are both overrated and I’d personally be happier without them.
Among many other concepts and all aside from their incessant glorifying, these two both needlessly promote a cycle of collective competition of popularity and productivity and demote personal independence and responsibility. Indeed, they are responsible for what is presently our broken, brutal, and bloody two party system of Democrat vs. Republican and Liberal vs. Conservative. I find the notion that humans are required to duel their ideas under the score of dominance is ironically no different than the nationalism of the Britain of yore.
That am I’m also forced to recognize people that I normally would not; I have to allow people to get in my personal business, for instance.
For what is popular, I can also say the same for what is unpopular. I must reemphasize that we never needed to submit our lifestyles or ideas for nobody’s sake except our own private one. We made them for ourselves and ourselves alone and if we liked them, then we liked them, and if we didn’t then we simply changed them. Just because something is considered popular or unpopular does not make them any more or less significant except perceptively in the culture that they form in.
Even originality is unoriginal.
In the end, it does not come down to which is popular or not, and all of our ideas can be considered arbitrary to the outside if found undesirable. Instead of merely serving the ego, it ultimately comes down to simply living our lives to our choosing. If all of this be deemed “Un-American,” “unpatriotic,” or even “unpopular,” in which case I feel that my point has been proven, then go and deem it so.
So yeah, don’t give me those free country and Orwell lines of crap.
Anyway, I think that once you think about it, free speech has nothing to do with anything ever. Did we ever really need it for anything else except to criticize to government? Another reason I hate free speech is because it reduces treating others the way you want to be treated in return, for instance, to a mere idea.
I hate how everyone romanticizes how dialogue and compromise can solve everything an the notion is more sinister than idealistic. If you demand or require that two opposing forces, let us say me and you know what for example, become buddies, you deny those people their autonomy and freedom of association and ultimately achieve social conformity. You will have forced people to give up their being of themselves and their ability to fight their own battles. Then again, I once said that if one side is hellbent on keeping another down, then that side doesn’t deserve to be themselves.?