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[Danzig]

Originally Posted by bigrun

I think this was meant for fox and others..


Thought for today.

"Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable"-Phyllis McGinley, American poet and author {1905-1978)

yeah, it's easy to support freedom of speech when someone agrees with what's being said.

it's why, much as i dislike westboro 'church', i know they have their right to their stupidity and standing and saying rotten things at funerals, etc. also why even the kkk has a right to their parades. i don't get why they do what they do...but i get that they can do it.

as the saying goes 'i don't agree with what you say, but i will defend your right to say it'.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

yeah, it's easy to support freedom of speech when someone agrees with what's being said.

it's why, much as i dislike westboro 'church', i know they have their right to their stupidity and standing and saying rotten things at funerals, etc. also why even the kkk has a right to their parades. i don't get why they do what they do...but i get that they can do it.

as the saying goes 'i don't agree with what you say, but i will defend your right to say it'.

I usta use that line at the old YB message board with a minor change.
'I don't agree with what you say but i will defend with YOUR life the right to say it'

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by bigrun

I usta use that line at the old YB message board with a minor change.
'I don't agree with what you say but i will defend with YOUR life the right to say it'

yeah, it's funny...people bash the aclu...til they need them. or think they should step in.

yeah, old sarah palin...raised hell when rahm emanuel said 'retarded', defended rush for saying it.
screamed bloody murder for msnbc to do something to bashir, who ended up fired, but phil has free speech rights and shouldn't have been suspended. but-doesn't the gop think that businesses should be able to do as they please?

gotta love that consistency.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Danzig

yeah, it's easy to support freedom of speech when someone agrees with what's being said.

it's why, much as i dislike westboro 'church', i know they have their right to their stupidity and standing and saying rotten things at funerals, etc. also why even the kkk has a right to their parades. i don't get why they do what they do...but i get that they can do it.

as the saying goes 'i don't agree with what you say, but i will defend your right to say it'.

As I said before, if someone says really nasty and hateful things, they probably should get fired, regardless of their right to free-speech and regardless of whether they are conservative or liberal.

As I said before, if a Muslim or a person of any religion is being interviewed and says that they think that something that I do is a sin, I would have no problem with that. Why would I care? If they said that they hate Jews and Christians and all Jews and Christians should die, that would be totally different. I would have a problem with that and I would want the person to get fired.

I don't see any hypocrisy there.