What liberals really want isnt free speech. They want to be able to relentlessly bash any opposing veiwpoint without putting themselves through the horrid inconvenience of research or objectivity. But since they would sound like closed minded jerks if they put it in those terms; they call it free speech. That way, anytime someone has the gall to say 'wow that was over a line' they can screech back 'I HAVE A RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH' and they...technically...are right. No matter how derogatory or condescending or just plain gross their 'speech' is, we have to hear about it with our mouths bound shut, lest we be branded with a handful of barely coherent slogans turned labels, accusations of being below average intellegence or (if the others haven't gotten on our nerves as much as they'd like) they stoop to childish name calling and unflattering physique-related adjectives.
During Bush's presidency a whole crop of rediculously over the top shows/movies/comedy routines came out to castrate any member of the republican party in any way possible. Some sketches included (i wish i was making this up) Cheney living in Barbra Bush's vagina, various members of the Bush administartion raping each other, and of course the ever present 'Bush is a legal retard' sub plot. Think what you'd like about the president and his staff; at what point in our society did it become ok to discuss (at length) an 80 year old womans vagina? Seriously. You may believe they were the worst leaders in history, but inventing an entire show around their elderly mother's private parts is over the line. A line that once upon a time existed. But we're not allowed to say so. They have free speech.
Me, not so much. I'm not even allowed to call an obviously gay man a 'fag' in jest, to his face, moments after he used it to describe himself, without it being a hate crime punishable by law. So calling the commander in cheif's mom a slut with the vice president living in her genitals is protected by the consitution...but telling your lesbian boss she can't have a fiancee because they can't legally get married will get you landed in a meeting with HR for 'cultural insensitivity' for the most frustrating hour and a half of your life.
In fact, I can't even have free speech enough to tell them their speech was ignorant and offensive. Well I can, but not without hearing some drivel taken off of some 1970's bumper sticker/tshirt that makes just enough sense to get it repeated for decades but not enough solid logic to keep my intestines from turning into angry serpents.
When our founding fathers spoke of free speech, they came from a country where it was litereally illegal to read certain pieces without facing time in prison. Not american 3 meals a day prison, olde english made of mossy bricks fighting rats for food dying of gangrene prison. I think they kind of assumed people were mature enough to avoid child molestation jokes and scenes of graphic rape available to the general public before 6 in the evening. What they were probably going for was 'we have a right to speak up when we're upset by the way things are' rather than 'we have a right to upset other people because it draws in ratings from a 15-25 year old demographic'.
And damn us for being upset. This should be funny right? Seth MacFarlane should be praised for his groundbreaking work towards...whatever it is he's doing. If we would evolve higher and think harder, we'd all come to the conclusion that the bile in our stomaches or fluttering in our hearts when we see something thats wrong and sad and enraging is a good thing. Or maybe we have an adverse physical reaction to that kind of stuff because we're -supposed- to steer clear. We're supposed to indulge that anti-impulse called self control that helps us develop our moral center. We used to have this thing...This nagging voice that says 'hey thats mean/gross/sad/WRONG' when we saw a kid getting molested or an old blind lady getting tortured. That voice used to help us mold ourselves into good people...But now (apparently) its only known side effect is killing brain cells and turning all who give in to the guilt it instills in us into driveling idiots in the eyes of the liberal public.
Oppressed in case i get oppressive,
SAM:)
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