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07-23-2017 , 01:26 PM
chezlaw is deleting comments critical of Freddie DeBoer lol. Honorary SMP status bestowed based on his shared loathing of the SJW race traitors, I guess.
07-23-2017 , 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
And I've been trying to get people to stop worrying about the law and focus on principles. Discussions of the law always leads to confusion, and to mistakes like claims "free speech is only about the state suppression of speech", when it is absolutely not that. Free speech is a concept that should be protected from the state by the state, but it is primarily a philosophical principle that is central to scientific, liberal thought. So when I claim nobody should shout down anyone, that has nothing to do with the law, even though the law does apply in some circumstances.
You have repeatedly told liberals to stop calling things racist they think are racist, FoldN, to the point where you made a self-moderated thread and banned me from it.

So ****ing bad at the con.
07-23-2017 , 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
chezlaw is deleting comments critical of Freddie DeBoer lol. Honorary SMP status bestowed based on his shared loathing of the SJW race traitors, I guess.
I would prefer if there were no moderation, if for no other reason to let fly expose what I'm talking about.

I guess his comment about me watching Youtubes and then spouting race/intelligence theories within 18 months was deleted, and I wanted to respond to it, so I will anyway:

This is the hilariously off base trope promoted by many of over-the-top woke who try to enforce the social justice orthodoxy through cynical and dishonest means.

Almost none of the "alt-right" creators on youtube are actually like richard spencer. I fact, most of what are better characterized as "anti-SJWs" abhor and mock him as a the identitarian he is, and view him as the flip side of the identitarian SJWs.

This may seem like it's silly and unimportant, but it's how millions of kids are learning politics.

Time's Most Influential People on the Internet has Laci Green at number four on their list:

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In an effort to provide a more approachable version of sex education, the YouTube star offers sisterly advice on everything from hookup culture to body positivity to BDSM. In sum, her videos have amassed 122 million views, turning the 26-year-old, who was raised Mormon, into a millennial Dr. Ruth. She’s now a go-to host (of MTV’s digital series Braless) and ambassador (for Trojan’s “Consent. Ask For It.” campaign)—with a rapidly growing fanbase.—Nolan Feeney
Laci used to be among the "SJW" who were roundly criticized by the antis, until recently when she decided to reach out and host conversations with them. She has been almost unanimously welcomed by the anti side, and very widely criticized by the SJW side, who only see hate on the other side, not recognizing they are blinded by their own. Now Laci's 1.5 MM subs will have a chance to see what she has seen, and a crack in the dogma awaits.

This was due to some previous discussions she had with one of them going well, perhaps also due to her now dating one of them, and clearly also because of the overwhelming number of critics and their subscribers who see through the orthodoxy. I'm sure it didn't help when the biggest Youtuber of all (currently with 56 MM subs) and 9th on Time's Most Influential People on the Internet list, Pewdiepie, was portrayed as a white supremacist in a hack attack by the always jealous and SJW ridden MSM. No doubt the huge majority of his fans were put off by that, which likely added many more to the anti-SJW ranks.

The kids got this. The orthodoxy will eventually crumble, and hopefully it will reemerge as something much better and more liberal minded. Let's just hope it doesn't take too long!

Last edited by FoldnDark; 07-23-2017 at 01:44 PM. Reason: Links
07-23-2017 , 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
chezlaw is deleting comments critical of Freddie DeBoer lol. Honorary SMP status bestowed based on his shared loathing of the SJW race traitors, I guess.
Your post was deleted for objectionable content about autism. It was nothign to do with who it was directed at.
07-23-2017 , 01:46 PM
LOL FoldN you're like 40 and you're ****ing watching Minecraft let's plays for your politics, and you're eagerly sharing us the dishy dirty on ****ing Youtube personalities like anyone could possibly give a ****.

But real quick

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Pewdiepie, was portrayed as a white supremacist in a hack attack by the always jealous and SJW ridden MSM.
oh wow how hackish and SJW but real quick can you explain which SJW-ridden MSM publication did that, and how and why they managed to portay him as such?
07-23-2017 , 01:46 PM
"woke" is an adjective, not a noun.
07-23-2017 , 01:53 PM
Disruption of describing racism is confronted. Tell the college students.
07-23-2017 , 01:55 PM
FoldN hanging out at pewdiepie's channel like

07-23-2017 , 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
Haha, Freddie DeBoer summarizes the fruitless nature of trying to argue with people in P like Wookie and goofy and shamey about campus censorship:



He goes on for awhile like that, covering quite a lot of arguments I've had on this matter. It's good to see someone so eloquently describe the feeling of bashing his head against a wall that is arguing about this subject.
Hahaha, Foldn, what about the fruitlessness and banging-head-on-wall nature of arguing with people who don't give any ****s at all if the evidence they present is accurate, then slink away and pretend it never happened when called on it?
07-23-2017 , 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
LOL FoldN you're like 40 and you're ****ing watching Minecraft let's plays for your politics, and you're eagerly sharing us the dishy dirty on ****ing Youtube personalities like anyone could possibly give a ****.

But real quick



oh wow how hackish and SJW but real quick can you explain which SJW-ridden MSM publication did that, and how and why they managed to portay him as such?
He's written multiple posts now about Laci Green's sex life and assures us this is important based on a list where someone with 1.5m YouTube subs is the 4th most influential person on the internet (!!!!!).
07-23-2017 , 02:16 PM
WAIT WAIT LOL

I CLICKED FOLDN'S TIME LINK

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Here's who made this year's unranked list:
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
07-23-2017 , 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
Almost none of the "alt-right" creators on youtube are actually like richard spencer.
The only reason you say this is because you believe they are just joking about their racism, which is an incredibly stupid thing to believe when they support banning Muslims from the US.
07-23-2017 , 02:39 PM
As far as I know Laci Green is one of those youtubers who can't decide if their audience is five or twenty five and makes ten minute overviews of a bunch of topics loosely feminist.

Why am I supposed to have this idea that because she's possibly vaguely on "my side" that I'm obliged to accept whatever she has to say on anything?
07-23-2017 , 03:01 PM
Foldn's whole take here is incoherent.

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Laci used to be among the "SJW" who were roundly criticized by the antis, until recently when she decided to reach out and host conversations with them. She has been almost unanimously welcomed by the anti side, and very widely criticized by the SJW side, who only see hate on the other side, not recognizing they are blinded by their own. Now Laci's 1.5 MM subs will have a chance to see what she has seen, and a crack in the dogma awaits.

This was due to some previous discussions she had with one of them going well, perhaps also due to her now dating one of them, and clearly also because of the overwhelming number of critics and their subscribers who see through the orthodoxy. I'm sure it didn't help when the biggest Youtuber of all (currently with 56 MM subs) and 9th on Time's Most Influential People on the Internet list, Pewdiepie, was portrayed as a white supremacist in a hack attack by the always jealous and SJW ridden MSM. No doubt the huge majority of his fans were put off by that, which likely added many more to the anti-SJW ranks.
You love these anti-SJWs, right? So what are you complaining about? Isn't this exactly what you want?

Or you don't like them and think we should...do what?
07-23-2017 , 03:32 PM
My guess is that we're supposed to be mad about Laci's choice of sexual partners, or mad about the fact that "our" "4th most influential person on the internet" (hahaha) is being pulled to the other side; Foldn failed to realize that none of us care
07-23-2017 , 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by microbet
Free speech is only about the state suppression of speech.

You're wrong, as I've spent plenty of time explaining. Scientific reasoning and the entire backbone of liberal civilization depends on freedom of thought and speech, not just the laws designed to protect it from the state. Mill disagrees with you too.

(my bold)

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THE TIME, it is to be hoped, is gone by, when any defence would be necessary of the "liberty of the press" as one of the securities against corrupt or tyrannical government. No argument, we may suppose, can now be needed, against permitting a legislature or an executive, not identified in interest with the people, to prescribe opinions to them, and determine what doctrines or what arguments they shall be allowed to hear. This aspect of the question, besides, has been so often and so triumphantly enforced by preceding writers, that it needs not be specially insisted on in this place. Though the law of England, on the subject of the press, is as servile to this day as it was in the time of the Tudors, there is little danger of its being actually put in force against political discussion, except during some temporary panic, when fear of insurrection drives ministers and judges from their propriety; 1 and, speaking generally, it is not, in constitutional countries, to be apprehended, that the government, whether completely responsible to the people or not, will often attempt to control the expression of opinion, except when in doing so it makes itself the organ of the general intolerance of the public. Let us suppose, therefore, that the government is entirely at one with the people, and never thinks of exerting any power of coercion unless in agreement with what it conceives to be their voice. But I deny the right of the people to exercise such coercion, either by themselves or by their government. The power itself is illegitimate. The best government has no more title to it than the worst. It is as noxious, or more noxious, when exerted in accordance with public opinion, than when in opposition to it. If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the owner; if to be obstructed in the enjoyment of it were simply a private injury, it would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
Mill goes on to outline a very strong defense of free speech as a tool to find truth create knowledge. I recommend you read the chapter. http://www.bartleby.com/130/2.html
07-23-2017 , 03:52 PM
Just a bunch of perfectly normal grownup adultmen having a grownup chat about pewdiepie youtubes, nothing weird going on in this thread.
07-23-2017 , 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
WAIT WAIT LOL

I CLICKED FOLDN'S TIME LINK



BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hmm, ok so they're all part of the top 30 most influential people on the internet, in no particular order... ok. I guess that still probably puts old Pewds near the top, since he still has the most subs on Youtube. I remember when Dids and you guys dismissed cable news in similar clueless fashion, bragged that you had the internet new media. Well Dids ain't here anymore, shocked at how out of touch he was, I suppose. I hope yall hang around though.
07-23-2017 , 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
Well Dids ain't here anymore, shocked at how out of touch he was
Without getting into your typical lying here ("Dids and you guys", assigning views to me that I've never written any posts about, just like earlier when you lied about me posting about "alt-right boogiemen"): you're a 40 year old watching gamer videos on Youtube and obsessively following the sex lives of nobodies half your age to breathlessly report back to this thread on. Who exactly is "out of touch" here?
07-23-2017 , 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
Haha, Freddie DeBoer summarizes the fruitless nature of trying to argue with people in P like Wookie and goofy and shamey about campus censorship:



He goes on for awhile like that, covering quite a lot of arguments I've had on this matter. It's good to see someone so eloquently describe the feeling of bashing his head against a wall that is arguing about this subject.
Dude Condoleeza Rice ****ing decided herself not to speak.
07-23-2017 , 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
You missed the part where the kids mobbed his class, blocked campus police, held administrators hostage (much of this and more is on video they took themselves - I posted the Vice video ffs), allegedly hunted Weinstein and his students around campus, and basically outted themselves and their professors as a social justice cult, all before he went to the press. This has already lead to a loss of enrollment for next fall and is probably going to get their funding cut by the state. Indeed, sadly this is a 10/10.
Yeah, they sound like massive *******s.
07-23-2017 , 04:46 PM
So when are you free speech absolutists going to get to the free speech rights of the regular workers at those evil liberal colleges and Walmart. Like if i go to the airport to pick up ann coulter and i tell her she is an asshat on the way to drop her off at berkeley and get fired for insubordination. The proud boys will be there in my defense right?
07-23-2017 , 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by batair
So when are you free speech absolutists going to get to the free speech rights of the regular workers at those evil liberal colleges and Walmart. Like if i go to the airport to pick up ann coulter and i tell her she is an asshat on the way to drop her off at berkeley and get fired for insubordination. The proud boys will be there in my defense right?
Yeah this is where we always get back to. FoldN posts these rambling nonsensical bits about how free speech and rational inquiry are vital and blah blah blah.

What's the threat to those, again? What exactly is the problem here, and what is the proposed solution?

It's all just whining that he knows that if he shares his thoughts on the gays people will call him mean names and it might take a little while before chezlaw comes along to delete those posts.
07-23-2017 , 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by TiltedDonkey
Dude Condoleeza Rice ****ing decided herself not to speak.


Dang. Condoleftist Rice ?
07-23-2017 , 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
You're wrong, as I've spent plenty of time explaining. Scientific reasoning and the entire backbone of liberal civilization depends on freedom of thought and speech, not just the laws designed to protect it from the state. Mill disagrees with you too.

(my bold)



Mill goes on to outline a very strong defense of free speech as a tool to find truth create knowledge. I recommend you read the chapter. http://www.bartleby.com/130/2.html
I've read all of On Liberty even though Mill is boring as ****. The coercion only happens with violence, which in itself is already illegal for a citizen. The state has a monopoly on violence. Your misunderstanding of the heckler's veto is a misunderstanding.

Only the state can suppress speech. The closest example to non-government suppression of speech would be liable laws and things like Ag-gag laws which allow for civil punishment for speech, but enforcement always comes down to the state and at least the Ag-gag laws are pretty clear violations of free speech imo, it's just that we're living in an oligarchy not really a free liberal democracy.

But you're not talking about coercion here. You're talking about other people using their speech that you want to shut down. I don't think anyone at all has suggested that violence or even threats of violence against conservative speakers should be legal. I might go so far as to say sometimes violence is actually called for. Punching a Nazi may be the right thing to do, but it should still be illegal at this point anyway.


      
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