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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 25, 2024 18:30:45 GMT
Britons are being cowed into silence for fear of being attacked over their views, a major report reveals today.Three quarters of respondents, including teachers, councillors and academics, told a government adviser they were being forced to self-censor after being bombarded by threats and intimidation, creating a 'chilling' effect on freedom of speech. Dame Sara Khan wants ministers to set up an Office for Social Cohesion and Democratic Resilience, as well as banning protests outside schools, and says police need dedicated 'safety officers' to tackle persistent harassment, including on social media. She said her findings were a 'damning indictment of the state of harassment and censorship in our country'. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13234229/Three-quarters-Brits-afraid-speak-mind-risk-harassment-shocking-report-reveals.htmlFree speech has been sacrificed on the altar of woke of that there is no doubt. The government and police have encouraged people to see offence in everything. The authorities have accepted that the feelings of some minorities are far more important than those of the vast majority, and in an effort to enthusiastically accept and adopt the doctrine of woke and diversity and to appease minorities, the government have essentially cancelled free speech for the vast majority.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 25, 2024 22:04:06 GMT
Britons are being cowed into silence for fear of being attacked over their views, a major report reveals today.Three quarters of respondents, including teachers, councillors and academics, told a government adviser they were being forced to self-censor after being bombarded by threats and intimidation, creating a 'chilling' effect on freedom of speech. Dame Sara Khan wants ministers to set up an Office for Social Cohesion and Democratic Resilience, as well as banning protests outside schools, and says police need dedicated 'safety officers' to tackle persistent harassment, including on social media. She said her findings were a 'damning indictment of the state of harassment and censorship in our country'. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13234229/Three-quarters-Brits-afraid-speak-mind-risk-harassment-shocking-report-reveals.htmlFree speech has been sacrificed on the altar of woke of that there is no doubt. The government and police have encouraged people to see offence in everything. The authorities have accepted that the feelings of some minorities are far more important than those of the vast majority, and in an effort to enthusiastically accept and adopt the doctrine of woke and diversity and to appease minorities, the government have essentially cancelled free speech for the vast majority. The law is construed in such a way that where there is an argument between two people, like this happens millions of time a day, then once they get their 'I'm going to bust you' act on, say by phoning the cops or some litigation, then rather than being a law system where everyone is equal, the more pathetic you make out you are the greater the legal advantage you have. So the legal system they have perverted has these deliberate inbuilt behaviour modifications biases in it. Just as a speed camera modifies your behaviour in putting your foot down, so this law makes everyone into a fairy. |
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Post by Orac on Mar 26, 2024 0:17:35 GMT
It's a rather profound form of learned helplessness. The more of a useless, reality detached, fragile wreck you are (or claim to be), the more advantage you gain over others
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Post by Fairsociety on Mar 26, 2024 12:32:26 GMT
The same reason the lefties on here are forever complaining that those 75% are getting a voice on here, and the lefties are forever trying to get the boss to silence, cancel or ban them.
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Post by Dan Dare on Mar 26, 2024 12:58:11 GMT
It's not just fear of harassment by Mohammedans which prevents people from speaking their minds, it's also the prospect of prosecution by the authorities with career ruination and even prison as a result.
In fact that's what originally had the chilling effect on freedom of expression long before Islamists became a problem.
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Post by Fairsociety on Mar 26, 2024 12:59:54 GMT
It's not just fear of harassment by Mohammedans which prevents people from speaking their minds, it's also the prospect of prosecution by the authorities with career ruination and even prison as a result. In fact that's what originally had the chilling effect on freedom of expression long before Islamists became a problem. Mohammedans ........ LOL  |
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Post by Dan Dare on Mar 26, 2024 13:06:57 GMT
It's just that all such problems are routinely attributed to the presence of Muslims when in fact they've been an issue for white British people for at least sixty years.
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Post by Totheleft on Mar 26, 2024 13:08:02 GMT
It's not just fear of harassment by Mohammedans which prevents people from speaking their minds, it's also the prospect of prosecution by the authorities with career ruination and even prison as a result. In fact that's what originally had the chilling effect on freedom of expression long before Islamists became a problem. Mohammedans ........ LOL You never heard that term before? It shows you had a very Sheltered life. It shows in ur post how old ru by the way? |
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Post by Dogburger on Mar 26, 2024 14:36:23 GMT
I'm glad to report I'm one of the 25% and am working on expanding that number  |
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Post by Pacifico on Mar 26, 2024 15:34:28 GMT
It's going to get worse on April 1st when Scotlands Hate crime legislation comes into being - many members of this forum could fall foul of that.
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Post by Fairsociety on Mar 26, 2024 15:41:08 GMT
It's going to get worse on April 1st when Scotlands Hate crime legislation comes into being - many members of this forum could fall foul of that. Fools springs to mind. |
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Post by Orac on Mar 26, 2024 16:01:48 GMT
It's going to get worse on April 1st when Scotlands Hate crime legislation comes into being - many members of this forum could fall foul of that. If these posters stick to the government approved forms of racial hatred etc, they should be fine. If they are in any doubt they should ask a policemen |
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Mar 26, 2024 17:22:52 GMT
I was sitting with a friend outside a Starbucks in London. He showed me the front page article in the local paper. After reading it I said: "Do cleaners throw away false teeth?". Someone at a nearby table phoned the police. Two cops turned up and said to me: "This is your first warning. You get three warnings". They then went away. I was later told by a policeman that if people, whilst in a public place, make verbal comments about something in a newspaper that upsets people within earshot they are committing an offence. The person who called the police did so because I was implying that it was a nurse who threw away an elderly patient's false teeth, not a cleaner ... the article was about an elderly man who was subjected to a series of abuses in the local hospital. The person who called the police was wearing a nurses' uniform.
The police didn't ask my name, or even say why they had approached me. The person who called the police was black. A black friend of mine, a nurse who worked in the hospital, told me about abuse of elderly white patients by some of the black nursing staff ... who justified it by saying: "It's because of the way they treated our grandparents!"
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Post by Handyman on Mar 26, 2024 19:50:24 GMT
It's just that all such problems are routinely attributed to the presence of Muslims when in fact they've been an issue for white British people for at least sixty years. I agree , our Freedom of Speech and Expression has been under attack for a long time, now it is under attack more than ever |
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Post by sandypine on Mar 26, 2024 21:15:05 GMT
It's just that all such problems are routinely attributed to the presence of Muslims when in fact they've been an issue for white British people for at least sixty years. Very true however Muslims have made the threats of violence very real and there is little doubt a threat from a Muslim group has behind a history of being enacted even if it is by the 'lone wolf' or the 'mentally ill' both of which seem to arise in Islam with remarkable fecundity. |
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