Posted on 11/28/2023 6:57:07 AM PST by lowbridge
Irish Green Party Senator Pauline O'Reilly recently defended her government's hate speech bill by suggesting that it is necessary to restrict people's freedoms by censoring gender-related speech that could make some feel "insecure" or uncomfortable.
She said: "When you think about [it], all legislation is about the restriction of freedom. That's exactly what we're doing here. We are restricting freedom, but we're doing it for the common good."
"You will see throughout our Constitution, yes, you have rights, [but] they are restricted for the common good. Everything needs to be balanced. And if your views on other people's identities go to make their lives unsafe, insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live in peace, then I believe that it is our job as legislators to restrict those freedoms for the common good."
The bill in question is The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offenses) Act 2022, which is an update to a 1989 law. The Catholic News Agency reported that the country's Department of Justice could consider the 1989 iteration of the law "ineffective," citing that "new technological developments and newly prominent minorities such as people of different races and religions, persons with disabilities, and those who identify as LGBTQ."
The bill states: "Hate speech is designed to shut people down, to shut them up, to make them afraid to say who they are and to exclude and isolate them. There is nothing free about that, and there is, frankly, no place for it in our society.”
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Well. Of course.
Well if the Green Party is for it then it must be a good idea /s
God hates sin. Communists hate God.
” “Hate speech is designed to shut people down, to shut them up, to make them afraid to say who they are and to exclude and isolate them...”
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OH THE IRONY!
The government is the only one with the ‘authority’ to comit hate speech, by their own definition of it.
When did uncomfortable become an excuse for taking away a person’s rights, and why does it always only go one way?
There are constitutional exceptions to free speech in the US..incitement, slander etc. and I suppose they are for the “common good” as well.
OH THE IRONY!
The government is the only one with the ‘authority’ to comit hate speech, by their own definition of it.
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Yeah...I was immediately thinking the same thing. The sheer audacity of saying something like this cannot be lost on the general public. Just how hypocritical can people like this be?
Does it shut up the pronoun people too? That’s what I want.
The EU/WEF/DAVOS types will achieve in 30 years what England could not achieve in 300 - the elimination of Irish Nationhood
She said: “When you think about [it], all legislation is about the restriction of freedom. That’s exactly what we’re doing here. We are restricting freedom, but we’re doing it for the common good.”
-——Theodore Dalrymple———
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that
the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not
to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to
reality the better.
When people are forced to remain silent when they
are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced
to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense
of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become
evil oneself.
One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even
destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think
if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is
intended to.”
Written by Theodore Dalrymple
The Irish government needs to listen to its people and should allow them to speak their mind.
A boiler not vented can explode.
Well! How very...communist.
Allowing women to vote was a terrible idea.
Just terrible.
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When they say that everyone knows they mean the exact opposite.
“common good”
Irish rich are getting higher rents.
The migrants are getting more money and stuff.
The native born working class Irish have fewer opportunities and have to pay more in rent.
And I’m supposed to be worried about Putin?
Migration is not the answer to worldwide poverty.
There are not enough living wage jobs in Ireland, the UK and the USA and never will be.
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