Freedom of speech

Speech Is Not Violence

Have you noticed how our language is changing?

At a congressional hearing on “Birthing While Black,” nearly every politician used the words “birthing people” instead of “women” or “mothers.” Asked why, Shalanda Young, President Joe Biden’s budget director, said, “Our language needs to be more inclusive.”

Activists have also changed “equality” to “equity” and “affirmative action” to “diversity.”

The Associated Press no longer uses “mistress.” It tells reporters to use “companion, friend, or lover.”

Worse, certain speech is now labeled “violence.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", "racial justice", "Social Justice", Censorship, Freedom of speech

Canadian universities are not safe places … for ideas

In a recent C2C Journal article, my colleague at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU), Prof. David Millard Haskell, wrote about the widespread censorship taking place at Canadian universities. As Haskell’s article showed through empirical research and numerous examples, students and faculty who challenge progressive claims are being harassed by student mobs and punished by administrators.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom of speech

Odious speech is ‘the price we pay for our freedom,’ B.C. Supreme Court says in ruling

A city violated the free expression of a church when it cancelled an event because of the participation of an anti-LGBTQ activist, according to a decision by the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

In a ruling that came down in support of free speech, Justice Maria Morellato said, “In a free and democratic society, the exchange and expression of diverse and often controversial or unpopular ideas may cause discomfort. It is, in a sense, the price we pay for our freedom.”

Pretty shocking, for Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Freedom of speech, WTF?

BUCKLE UP: Biden Regime Steps Up Attacks To Censor Conservative Media For “Misinformation”

The Sunday morning “news” shows that serve as delivery systems for the Biden regime’s propaganda advanced the chilling idea that dissenting viewpoints need to be censored.

To do their dirty work, the administration dispatched US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to rail against “misinformation” which he blamed on conservative media.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", Censorship, Censorship on Social Media, Freedom of speech, Leftist scumbags, Leftists - intolerance of political right

“If You Do Not Have Free Speech You Are Not Free” – Refugees from Communism Horrified at America

Today in America there is a new generation of exiles from Communist regimes fighting a new political correctness, called wokeism.

Czeslaw Milosz, before he was a Nobel laureate for Literature and author of The Captive Mind, fought two totalitarianisms in his native country, Poland: first Nazism, then Communism, which took its place. In 1945, after joining the Polish diplomatic service, Milosz was appointed cultural attaché to the embassy in New York, where he served until being recalled in 1950. In 1951, he defected to France.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", Freedom of speech

Justin Trudeau isn’t the progressive leader he thinks he is

It came as no surprise to me to see activists ‘celebrating’ Canada Day by setting fire to churches and toppling statues of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria, while chanting, ‘No pride in genocide.’

Canada has managed to cultivate a culture that is simultaneously self-hating and self-righteous. We have no pride in being Canadian. Yet we are confident we are better than everyone else.

h/t Marvin

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Censorship, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada, Hate Speech, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, Justin Trudeau Mocked On World Stage

Liberal Canada marching towards tyranny as move to criminalize dissenting speech moves closer to reality

In case you haven’t noticed, in the age of COVID-19, our laid-back, ultra-liberal northern neighbor, Canada, is moving steadily toward tyranny, and there are not many people in the country who seem to mind.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship, Censorship in Canada, Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada, Tyranny!

Majority in Ontario Oppose the Crux of Bill C-10

When asked whether they support a federal government bill to promote and demote content in the results of search functions on social media sites like YouTube and Facebook, 62% of Ontario residents said they oppose this initiative. Of those, 41% said they strongly oppose the government having this power, while only 6% strongly support it.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Censorship, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, Ontario

Liberal hate speech bill will put a chill on free speech

To compare much of social media to a swamp, a sewer, a cesspool or an old-fashioned outhouse is to miss the point.

There is without question an offputting stink to all those entities, enough to discourage people from hanging around any longer than essential. But mere nature lacks something at which online communications excel: the malevolence, the cruelty, the bitterness, the truthlessness and the all-encompassing anger that typifies so much of what gets channelled into cyber discourse in the guise of discussion, commentary, debate, opinion or simple free speech.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Freedom of speech

Trudeau’s all-out war on free speech

‘CANADA, just like the USA, only nice’. What was once accurate is true no longer. Nice Canada is becoming increasingly intolerant, and it starts with the government. Justin Trudeau’s administration is trying to take cancel culture and turn it into federal law, empowering any social justice warrior with a grievance to take conservatives to court.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Freedom of speech