Bongo Interviews Scientist and Irexit Supporter

[The Name of Love]

Let's back up.

So there's a political party in Ireland called the Irish Freedom Party, which is, in essence, the Irish version of UKIP. Their policy goals include leaving the EU, freedom of speech, immigration control, and some moderate fiscal conservatism (e.g. less government spending and lower taxes on workers).

All in all, it supports positions that most people on this website would find uncontroversial.

Recently, the chairwoman of the party, Professor Dolores Cahill, was interviewed by 95.8 LMFM radio. My goodness was it simply infuriating.

Highlights include:

• Asking if she's in favor of "inciting hatred."
• Asking why free speech laws should protect "purely racist" comments, which he assumes are not true by default.
• Asking if she considers herself a racist or a bigot.
• Calling her a racist on the grounds that she's been called a racist by people in the media.

All within the first ten minutes at that.

What did you think of this interview? Are you about as exasperated by these bongos as I am?

 

[Cherico]

Ireland fought centuries to get their independence from the british.

If Brussles starts getting oppressive and by all accounts their pushing the Irish around then you have to expect the Irish to resent it a lot.

 

[Scottty]

Progressives doing the only thing they know how to do in response to rejection of their big-government agenda - call people racist?
No surprise.

 

[The Name of Love]

Progressives doing the only thing they know how to do in response to rejection of their big-government agenda - call people racist?
No surprise.

I find "hate speech" to be especially perverse. It's like something out of an Orwellian Novel.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

I find "hate speech" to be especially perverse. It's like something out of an Orwellian Novel.

Yeah, but the fact that it preys on people’s sensibilities to avoid being called or considered or seen as a particularly atrocious type of asshole is why not enough people will openly go against it

Also because just by saying Hate Speech, instant assumptions are made even though they’re words are recorded and they are found to be factually innocent

 

[The Name of Love]

Yeah, but the fact that it preys on people’s sensibilities to avoid being called or considered or seen as a particularly atrocious type of asshole is why not enough people will openly go against it

Also because just by saying Hate Speech, instant assumptions are made even though they’re words are recorded and they are found to be factually innocent

I mean, if we're going to be banning offensive speech... well, as a Christian, there's a lot of things I find offensive, including (but not limited to):

• Degrading or disrespecting God
• Claiming Catholics are pedophiles
• Gay Pride Flags
• Pornography and other obscene things

But the definition of hate speech isn't things that are offensive. It's things they hate.

 

[The Name of Love]

@CarlManvers2019 You may be correct in how simple envy may be playing a factor. I also think the idea of aesthetic standards in general offends them because they don't want their lives to be governed by standards they don't control. Social norms that don't conform to their whims are oppressive to a lot of these people.