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If the woman said "Britain's genocide of the French people.", wouldn't that make her radar?
Wouldn't she say "Huh? What are you talking about?"?
There is no truth to either statement, so why is 1 lie accepted as "her truth", while the other lie would not be?
The British never deprived the French of their property or livelihood or their cultural traditions in Upper Canada, but only required them to pay tribute to the crown. "Genocide", along with "hate speech" and "racism", has expanded to encompass a great deal more than it means. It has a place in the language only for rare extremes. It is an abuse of free speech to use any of those words frivolously. It is still Free Speech, but it paints the speaker as an idiot and deflates her argument, which in fact is the great benefit of free speech.. It allows fools to identify themselves.
Here's the thing. When people use the term "Free Speech", they are referring to The Constitution. You are referring to YouTube, Twitter, Private Colleges, Private companies, Private groups, censoring speech. You're redefining a commonly used phrase to meet your needs.
The right nor the left are not systematically (or otherwise) shutting down free speech as protected by The Constitution as you claim.
The colluding of the government with at least some of these sure does.
Funny thing is she will have idiot American Jews still voting for her.
Jewish people are very prosperous but just like Asian Americans, are politically blinded by the party that offers them the most free crap and pandering.
But the fact that both groups still vote for a party that despises them tells your how oblivious they can be.
I support freedom of speech so I would support this. However if the same person had said that gender is determined at birth, well they would have been cancel cultured.
The British never deprived the French of their property or livelihood or their cultural traditions in Upper Canada, but only required them to pay tribute to the crown. "Genocide", along with "hate speech" and "racism", has expanded to encompass a great deal more than it means. It has a place in the language only for rare extremes. It is an abuse of free speech to use any of those words frivolously. It is still Free Speech, but it paints the speaker as an idiot and deflates her argument, which in fact is the great benefit of free speech.. It allows fools to identify themselves.
I agree with most of this. But the watering down of the most meaningful words in our language is harmful to society.
I believe in that woman's right to say it, even if it is a lie.
What I disagree with, is our Vice President, not only accepting it, but encouraging it as "her truth".
That makes our Vice President either an imbecile or a horrible person, but probably a bit of both. She is not setting the kind of example a Vice President of the United States should set. And I am the first to admit that Trump didn't set a good example in many cases either, but people on the left cant complain about that, and then let stuff like this go unrecognized.
I agree with most of this. But the watering down of the most meaningful words in our language is harmful to society.
I believe in that woman's right to say it, even if it is a lie.
What I disagree with, is our Vice President, not only accepting it, but encouraging it as "her truth".
That makes our Vice President either an imbecile or a horrible person, but probably a bit of both. She is not setting the kind of example a Vice President of the United States should set. And I am the first to admit that Trump didn't set a good example in many cases either, but people on the left cant complain about that, and then let stuff like this go unrecognized.
She took the coward's way out. She tried not to offend the woman, while trying to remove herself from what was said.
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