That kind of proves my point though. . The difference is that you will be hard pressed to find many people who support those two regimes in the US or any other western democracy. And if you do it will be a tiny fringe group.

Almost every SJW in collage campuses will be fully in support of the C16 bill and would probably support a similar bill in the US.

How many times do I have to say I dont have a problem with protesting. You would be hard pressed to find someone that does.

So? People have every right to protest the things others say and every right to argue that they should be fired.

Yes. And this kind of thing is stopped by the authorities when it violates the law. Not fascism.

I don't defend this behavior. I just don't care and don't think it is anything close to fascism because it isn't.

Free speech is being protected. I'm not worried at all about the left on this issue.

lol. No.

Trying to get things cancelled IS free speech. Disrupting a speech IS free speech. If these protesters break any laws then the authorities should act.

Violent protests are illegal. No one thinks they should be legal. Your point?

I can certainly understand why unrepentant racists would think free speech is more important than eradicating any kind of oppression.

The why are you complaining about "deplatforming"?

13ball, you deny reality and when faced with it ask ever inane questions.

Isn't this exactly from that conservative playbook that was circulated? You are using exactly those tactics. You should stop.

JFC, why is this so hard for some of you? Yes, you have the right say you don't want someone to speak, to protest their speech, and to do everything within the law to stop their horrible ideas from being uttered, and others from hearing them. And so does your opposition... they can try to silence your terrible ideas as well. I'll stand up for your right to say any damn silly thing you want, including that you want me to stfu.

We're criticizing the idea that you should want to try to silence others, and that it does anything but make you look like an illiberal church nanny, giving your opponent the high ground.

You need to watch this and learn the lessons. No other outcome is acceptable. Learn the lessons:

Who am I trying to silence? I don't give a **** about Milo speaking somewhere. I also don't give a **** that people don't want him to speak at their universities.

So lord is anti-LBGQ, is that what the SJWs gave you **** about Lord? So when you talk about equal rights what do you actually mean?

Lol. Paul Joseph Watson? I'm not watching that conspiratorial moron. GMAFB.

Wow, just wow.

LordJvK,

The media you consume is rotting your mind. You obviously don't fact check any of these videos you watch and just gobble up their messages with emotional abandon. Clearly you have a lot of biases if you are citing conspiracy theorists and rape apologists as authorities on morality.

So it's ok to protest just not ok to be successful at it? LMAO

And you have to hand it to gamergate, Infowars, Breitbart, etc. They have mastered the genre of outrage porn. They know what buttons to push in the conservative lizard-brain. Fear and Loathing in 720HD--an unstoppable stream of petty complaints while Flint drinks lead.

But they can't do it without the compliant, comfortable conservative base and its deep-seated fear of damn near everything.

Not to downplay low level lead poisoning in children, since cleaning up lead contamination is something I've done for a living the past ten years, but I can't help noting the hysteria over Flint has been almost purely political fearmongering:

How many lead poisonings is acceptable in black kids Foldn?

Case and point.

What are you talking about exactly? You're saying SJWs are being too precious because a local government purposefully poisoned it's own people but the actual damage was only a few percentage point spike? **** you. 10 people died from Legionnaires disease that is most likely going to be linked to the water source change. Innocent people's lives were ruined because of this change and to it's NBG? How much outrage should we have over this situation?

Attack the argument being made, not the man.

Post his ideas not stupid youtube videos.

The legionaires disease is a much bigger deal, but lol at the government "purposefully" poisoning children. Governments, local, state, federal and public health agencies like EPA designed to protect people and the environment screw up all the time, and they typically self correct. It happens everywhere mostly due to bureaucratic incompetence. Everywhere, all the time. I could have gotten a few EPA project managers fired over the years if I called the press during an election year.

Paul Joseph Watson is not a reliable source and I'm not going to bother watching the video, tracking down his sources and seeing how he misrepresents them. He's not worth my time. He's also incredibly annoying to watch.

Replace lead in flint with irreparable damage caused by climate change or Republican governors not expanding Medicaid for the working poor or any of the myriad actual problems facing the US.

Because protesting is different to not allowing someone to speak. The manner of the protests were too violent innocent people getting punched to the ground , women being pepper sprayed at point blanc range.

To give you an example I was fully behind the protests at standing rock. The protest was carried out in a very dignified manner. There was a little bit of violence but the vast majority were peaceful. And to me it was a much more tense situation so in some ways the violence was more excusable. Still unacceptable but it was a very emotional situation.

This wasnt just some dude saying words you dont like this was about peoples actual rights. And I have actually disagreed with many anti SJWs about this. But this is the thing anti SJWs are from all across the political spectrum including the left, we disagree on some stuff. SJWs are like a cult and will bend over back words performing all sorts of mental gymnastic to defend their peers over their unacceptable behaviour.

I probably agree with you about the Flynt situation. I think PJW is a bit of a **** but I agree with him about SJWs and he was also very scathing recently of the alt right recently so good for him.

Its funny actually because I went to Lunch with my sister and her family today she brought up a documentary she was watching called the free speach apocolypse which she recommended. She is the closest thing to an SJW I know personally , she is a Muslim (converted) feminist (not quite 3rd wave maybe a little more radical than second wave) and she was very scathing of the SJWs behaviour in the documentary and of their behaviour in general. We both pretty much agreed on free speech.

The fact that even she was scathing of them was very telling to me.

Isn't the point of a protest to voice dissent with the idea that if people are shown differing viewpoints, we as a society will settle on an idea closer to the truth?

To measure success as shutting down an opposing point of view is so cynical and gross. And if a group "successfully" protests a viewpoint you happen to agree with, I suspect you wouldn't be so quick to defend their rights to shut down your speech.