Comment on Bean jean

• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  His politics have shifted of late.

  He is defended Boris Johnson when he made islamophobic dog whistle joke about Muslim women wearing burqas.

  He values speech over protecting people. He complains about cancel culture running amok. The subject has some nuance but when defending comedians saying “its just a joke”, its really really shitty.

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  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The left is going hard on wrong think. Anyone who even so much as disagrees with a college liberal view of the world gets called right wing or Maga. For a bunch of people who claim to be progressive left, they do everything possible to push people away.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can be a fascist and be a democrat. See: people like JS’s wife funding violent brownshirts breaking up peaceful protests.

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  • hark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Monster” seems a little hyperbolic, no?

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  • robotica@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it bad to value speech over protecting people?

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Protecting people from feeling offended, not bodily harm. His entire point is that it is a slippery slope trying to police speech when people can be offended by anything. The right to criticize, satirize, and otherwise commentate on ideas is a fundamental part of free speech, and that is all he was trying to defend.

      People looking for a scandal here need to go touch some grass for a while.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not the person you responded to… From reading the wiki article, it seems like that’s in line with other times that he has tried to speak in favor of free speech. I’m not saying Boris was right or ok to make insensitive comments; politicians should be held to higher standards. I would need additional examples. Doesn’t make a difference to me. I never liked his character anyway.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fair. Fair but good god elected should have to watch their speech even more. Cheers.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For a media person I think being concerned about free speech makes a ton of sense

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