I live in the free and morally righteous West and I self censor all the time. Every single day. My beliefs would have me ostracized from communities and fired from my job.
I live in the free and morally righteous West and I self censor all the time. Every single day. My beliefs would have me ostracized from communities and fired from my job.
> My beliefs would have me ostracized from communities and fired from my job.
but not landed you in prison or disappeared, I take it?
True, but at least in prison you're (usually) fed… which may NOT be the case if you're fired from your job, put on a list, and blocked from the industry.
> True, but at least in prison you're (usually) fed…
Not adequately or safely.
https://impactjustice.org/new-report-provides-first-ever-nat...
Still better than the in the average US school.
The linked report describes a case study of a prison where rat droppings were falling from the ceiling into the prison kitchen. It also states 75% of surveyed prisoners reported being served spoiled or rotting food.
Was your school worse than that?
They might, if not now then possibly in the future. See e.g. people in the UK getting arrested for tweets.
If you’re telling people to punch other people in the balls maybe you should be arrested.
Only if it is proved to a criminal standard (i.e. beyond reasonable doubt) to be intended to encourage an act of violence. It it is an expression of anger it is legitimate free speech.
Your comment has deliberately omitted the context needed for honest discourse. Thus, one can only conclude you are trolling.
So did the one they're replying to. They're just replying like-for-like.
It's typical that when someone is arrested for "X action with Y detail" (e.g. buying a knife with intent to kill someone) people who oppose the arrest will only state the X (and for some reason this works). To correct the record when someone says "I don't expect to be arrested for buying a knife", "I do expect to be arrested for planning to a murder" is a correct response.
A lot of US citizens have been imprisoned for their political ideas, though [1].
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_prisoners_in_the_Uni...
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So basically, you are OK with total authoritarian control over the population as long as its views that you agree with that are being enforced and views you don't like that are being oppressed. Not to mention that you didn't even care to find out what GP's views actually are - no room for nuance, just the fact that they are not socially acceptable is enough for you to condemn him.
Yeah. That's how society works lol.
I'm perfectly fine with the idea that people with morally reprehensible views are shamed and ostracized for it.
Notice he didn't even say what his views were, because he knew he would get no sympathy.
What beliefs are so dangerous in the west today? The supposed leader of the free world is a rapist who openly brags about assaulting women. His mugshot is used on giant banners that he approves of.
Self responsibility and chronic social problems.
Intelligence and genetics.
Genders and gender specific spaces.
Gender and social/professional roles.
Those are topics which have "sky is blue" level ideological certainty, and not open for debate.