COTSE-Sorry, can't do that, it might offend someone!
Brilliant Rant, I can totally agree with this one
COTSE-Sorry, can't do that, it might offend someone!: "Sorry, can't do that, it might offend someone!
Pardon me while I launch into another rant. This current trend of banning things because they might offend someone is really beginning to piss me off. This is the USA. This is a country founded upon freedom of expression. This is a country that guarantees freedom of speech in its constitution. But apparently that means absolutely nothing if someone complains about it.
Today's rule is that if it might offend someone, ban it. I, for one, am getting fed up with this attitude. Censorship is still censorship even when you are censoring so that you don't offend. I would go as far as saying that censorship is even worse when you are censoring because it might offend someone. This is because the only speech that needs protecting is offensive speech. If you cease protecting that, you may as well remove the first amendment.
That is basically what has been done. We've negated the first amendment and it did not take a bully to do it, rather it only took a whiner. When did the whiners gain control and why do we let them have control? If something said or displayed offends someone, tough! People will get offended about anything and everything, we cannot cater to those who whine about being offended or we will end up banning everything.
Case in point, at an elementary school in Maplewood, New Jersey they canceled a Saint Patricks day party in a grade school because one (1) single parent complained*. One person complained and because of that the entire celebration was canceled. A better solution would have been to tell that one whining parent to keep her child home that day if it offended her.
Another case in point, a worker in Richmond City Hall was told to take down an American flag because a few people complained about it. They said that it represented a war that offended them. Wrong! It represents the country they live in. It represents the government which employs them. It represents the f"
COTSE-Sorry, can't do that, it might offend someone!: "Sorry, can't do that, it might offend someone!
Pardon me while I launch into another rant. This current trend of banning things because they might offend someone is really beginning to piss me off. This is the USA. This is a country founded upon freedom of expression. This is a country that guarantees freedom of speech in its constitution. But apparently that means absolutely nothing if someone complains about it.
Today's rule is that if it might offend someone, ban it. I, for one, am getting fed up with this attitude. Censorship is still censorship even when you are censoring so that you don't offend. I would go as far as saying that censorship is even worse when you are censoring because it might offend someone. This is because the only speech that needs protecting is offensive speech. If you cease protecting that, you may as well remove the first amendment.
That is basically what has been done. We've negated the first amendment and it did not take a bully to do it, rather it only took a whiner. When did the whiners gain control and why do we let them have control? If something said or displayed offends someone, tough! People will get offended about anything and everything, we cannot cater to those who whine about being offended or we will end up banning everything.
Case in point, at an elementary school in Maplewood, New Jersey they canceled a Saint Patricks day party in a grade school because one (1) single parent complained*. One person complained and because of that the entire celebration was canceled. A better solution would have been to tell that one whining parent to keep her child home that day if it offended her.
Another case in point, a worker in Richmond City Hall was told to take down an American flag because a few people complained about it. They said that it represented a war that offended them. Wrong! It represents the country they live in. It represents the government which employs them. It represents the f"
posted by Unknown at Thursday, October 06, 2005
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