No Safe Spaces

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by TheSweetieMan

I think it's funny how both sides get up in arms about this. You have people in here mocking the intention of this film, yet they keep posting the same thing over and over.

What's that one word, "triggered"? Yeah. Triggered much?

Anyway,

Not sure about the point of this film. No one will watch it lol. I do think specific elements of "free speech" are being attacked, though. I'm not a fan of the whole "hey, let's cherry pick who can and cannot speak at specific institutions", or the concept of demonetizing specific individuals on specific platforms, just because of the type of language they use (I'm talking general profanity, not hate speech or anything extreme like that). So there is certainly merit to specific areas of free speech being targeted. Not everything that revolves around this discussion has be based entirely on political topics.

The United States is definitely getting a little too 1984 for my tastes.

And that's all I'll say on the subject, as I'm not even sure what this forum's policy is when it comes to political or social topics in the first place.

Except that conflating people liking or disliking what you have to say, even to the point of not inviting you to speak at their university graduation, for instance, with specifically freedom of speech is the primary problem here. Look, someone telling you to, "Please, shut the hell up," at a bar and an intrusion on freedom of speech are as alike as ... hmm, I can't even think of an appropriate simile here. But they are not alike at all.

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states in part as follows:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;

As far as I know, Congress is doing nothing of the kind, nor are they planning on doing any such thing. Everyone's freedom of speech is fully intact. You are free to say whatever you want, within legal reason of course. You can't spout government secrets, for example. But no one, and certainly not the government, is imposing on your rights as guaranteed in the Constitution.

Now, whether people *like* what you have to say, or how you say it, that's an entirely different question. And it has absolutely nothing to with any rights whatsoever.