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Originally Posted by tater
The UN has a resolution that the US has signed on to that makes defamation of religion a civil rights violation.
Insanity.
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The insanity lies in making any form expressing a critical opinion or attitude a "defamation". You may only think what is legal to think, and you may only say what you are allowed to say. If you violate that regime of an enforced "consensus", you get witch-hunted to death in public media, and if that violation even is with regard to Islamic claims and demands and self-understandings, then you even get criminalised and possibly punished with jail.
That is dangerous a condition, and indeed a major signal for dictatorship.
I also fear this spreading attitude that tyranny in the name of political correctness, is pretty much okay, since it is not about facism, but political correctness. Or the rule of the EU elite. Or Islam.
I used to differ between legalising criticism, which I supported, and prohibiting defamation, which I also supported. But the PC brigade is going from bad to worse and the insanity does not stop and it becomes more and more extreme and absurd and more and more freedom gets annihilated by them, so that I now do no make that distinction anymore, but tend to legalise both in order to assure that free speech survives even at the price of legalising defamation, too. I do not like it that way, but it is the lesser of two evils.
It is a massive abuse of classic ideals of the tradition of humanism and an abuse of freedoms in order to destroy freedom, that takes place right now. All that in the name of an increasing totalitarianism a la EU and/or Islam, and leftist dysutopias.