"The other great boon of that state of affairs...is that we can reply. We don't have to show the slightest respect for other people's views – just for their right to hold them. Respect, after all, must be earned. It's only freedom of speech that's a right. When someone says something which you find stupid or offensive,... you can say something back. You can tell them to fuck off."
David Mitchell
In more foppish terms:
"I despise what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Voltaire
AMEN!
Freedom of speech? How about abuse of ear appendages? How about I already spend too much time on facebook and don't need any more junk thought intake thankyouverymuch? It's not the offensiveness that bothers me - I love a good smack in the proverbial face (metaphysical masochism?). No, what really sets a bee in my bonnet is how DULL these mammals can be. Classic racism here, garden variety fundamentalism there... Nobody cares how your existential angst manifests itself, fundamentalists. Yuh hear me? No. Body. Cares.
Take a bubble bath. Light some candles. Read a book written by a pinko (I highly recommend How Are We to Live? by Peter Singer). Or read Eat Pray Love. Better yet, why don't you eat, pray, love? Most importantly, shut your piehole. If not, well, you've got what's coming to you.
I see your right to freedom of speech, Mr Fundamentalist.
And I raise you my right to freedom frombullshitmisinformation.
Take a bubble bath. Light some candles. Read a book written by a pinko (I highly recommend How Are We to Live? by Peter Singer). Or read Eat Pray Love. Better yet, why don't you eat, pray, love? Most importantly, shut your piehole. If not, well, you've got what's coming to you.
I see your right to freedom of speech, Mr Fundamentalist.
And I raise you my right to freedom from
May the best gal, win!
Love,
-k.
