Large %ages of Millennials, Dems, Europeans want to make "offensive" speech illegal

[Rex Kwon Do]

...but only if they're offensive to minorities. Yes, 1984 is getting closer by the year and it's not the right-wing boogeyman that's inching us closer towards institutionalized racism and fascism, it's the hypersensitive left. Huh.

American Millennials are far more likely than older generations to say the government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive statements about minority groups, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data on free speech and media across the globe.

roughly one-in-ten Silents [70-87 year-olds] (12%) say the government should be able to prevent such speech.

With that said, the Europeans are essentially already on the doorstep to fascism (again). So don't you guys go shaking your heads--especially the Germans. You're dangerously close to thoughtcrime.

Compared with people we surveyed in dozens of nations, Americans as a whole are less likely to favor the government being able to prevent speech of any kind.

Among Europeans, there is a wide range of opinion on whether the government can prevent statements that are offensive to minorities. Seven-in-ten Germans say this should be the case (where there are clear laws against hate speech), as do 62% of Italians and half of Poles. The French are divided, with 48% saying that the government should have the ability to prevent speech that is offensive to minority groups, while 51% say people should be able to say these things publicly. In contrast, the balance of opinion in the UK and Spain is to allow people to say statements that might offend minorities.

There is a bright spot for those on the Continent, though, and that is that their older generations are more retarded than the younger ones, which is reversed in the UK and America, where the Millennials are the ones most in favor of limiting free speech.

In contrast with American Millennials, those ages 18 to 34 in Germany and Spain are more likely to say people should be able to say things offensive to minorities compared with those ages 35 and older. On the other hand, in the UK, the younger generation follows the lead of American Millennials by being less open to this form of freedom of speech and more willing to allow government restrictions.

Source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...with-limiting-speech-offensive-to-minorities/

How depressing.

 

[InternetHero]

The awful mutation of American cultural to a racist neu-thought that gleefully demonizes the majority group of people for their skin color as part of "white privilege" would make a modern Martin Luther King cry over the ashes of his faded Dream of a color blind society.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

They can go fuck themselves.

 

[ObsoleteSoul]

People are dumb, so this isn't surprising. You know they say you don't know what ya got...

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

...but only if they're offensive to minorities. Yes, 1984 is getting closer by the year and it's not the right-wing boogeyman that's inching us closer towards institutionalized racism and fascism, it's the hypersensitive left. Huh.

The extreme version of anything sucks. Just another reason I don't want that idiot Sanders in the House -his 'Democratic Socialism' isn't extreme in and of itself, put its a step further in an extreme direction than the US currently is politically. Same goes for Donald Gumps dumbass. Tho I still think Trump is a bag of hot air, where Sanders isn't.

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

The extreme version of anything sucks. Just another reason I don't want that idiot Sanders in the House -his 'Democratic Socialism' isn't extreme in and of itself, put its a step further in an extreme direction than the US currently is politically. Same goes for Donald Gumps dumbass. Tho I still think Trump is a bag of hot air, where Sanders isn't.

Sure, the Buddha was right, stick to the middle way, but data is data. That graphic shows twice the number of leftists than rightists (by percentage) want to make speech illegal.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Sure, the Buddha was right, stick to the middle way, but data is data. That graphic shows twice the number of leftists than rightists (by percentage) want to make speech illegal.

Hence why I'm saying anyone being extreme is a jerkoff. I could care less about a political label. Liberal, Conservative, Democrat, Republican.. if you are extreme in any way, you are most likely a dim witted idiot.

 

[SouthoftheAndes]

New generation is less religious and more open to science but that only extends as far as it pertains to PC agenda politics and liberalism. Grandparents generation although more likely to believe in Spagheti monster gods and to deny climate change seems more inclined to question 'the system' or think that they are living inside or outside 'the matrix'.

Would be funny if silencing of free speech was used against these millennials

 

[PrinceOfPain]

If the truth offends you, silence it.
Disgusting culture.

 

[SouthoftheAndes]

It goes both ways though. A youth mind of today I feel if removed from the PC climate is more likely to do more than an older mind and be more open minded and more inclined to challenge their own beliefs. However, with the PC climate the challenging thing goes away.

 

[jeffk]

This is pretty sad. People should have the right to say stupid offensive things and ruin their reputation without the gov't getting involved.

I read on another board a woman saying calling a woman a c_n* is very close to an ethnic slur. I have never heard that before. Soon you won't be able to say c_n* without a large percentage of the the population wanting the gov't getting involved.

 

[SouthoftheAndes]

The awful mutation of American cultural to a racist neu-thought that gleefully demonizes the majority group of people for their skin color as part of "white privilege" would make a modern Martin Luther King cry over the ashes of his faded Dream of a color blind society.

The turning against the self and the tendency to undermine the majority group is basically unseen from a historical standpoint. Wishing to silence criticism against the interests of the majority in the case such criticism would harm the majority would make sense in terms of group strategy. However, advocating the interests of parallel and minority groups over the greater interests of the original majority is an inversion of everything.

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

If the truth offends you, silence it.
Disgusting culture.

Which culture? Or do you mean the global culture of thoughtcrime? Because as the graphic shows, this (at least) extends from Europe to America. Given cultural affinity, one would imagine that the number of Canadians, Australians, and other countries with similar cultures would fall somewhere in the spectrum between the US at the lower end and Western Europe at the higher end.

 

[Kardashians]

This is pretty sad. People should have the right to say stupid offensive things and ruin their reputation without the gov't getting involved.

I read on another board a woman saying calling a woman a c_n* is very close to an ethnic slur. I have never heard that before. Soon you won't be able to say c_n* without a large percentage of the the population wanting the gov't getting involved.

an ethnic slur? lol how even???
pls tell me how they explained this one xD

 

[Bacco]

Italy at second sound strange

 

[IDL]

The turning against the self and the tendency to undermine the majority group is basically unseen from a historical standpoint. Wishing to silence criticism against the interests of the majority in the case such criticism would harm the majority would make sense in terms of group strategy. However, advocating the interests of parallel and minority groups over the greater interests of the original majority is an inversion of everything.

It takes a lot of money, and a lot of influence by the ruling minority to bring this inversion / subversion about.

If they can condition enough people to WANT to hand over such power to them, then that is victory.

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

The awful mutation of American cultural to a racist neu-thought that gleefully demonizes the majority group of people for their skin color as part of "white privilege" would make a modern Martin Luther King cry over the ashes of his faded Dream of a color blind society.

Well said.

In a perverse way, seeing so many Germans supporting suppression of speech would make Hitler proud. Though he wouldn't be happy that they were supporting banning speech against minorities, of course...but it's the principle that counts.

Italy at second sound strange

I'm sure everyone from a country that was listed above would like to say it sounds strange, but Pew is very reputable.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

It goes both ways though. A youth mind of today I feel if removed from the PC climate is more likely to do more than an older mind and be more open minded and more inclined to challenge their own beliefs. However, with the PC climate the challenging thing goes away.

Its easier to influence a young inexperienced mind than an older experienced one.

 

[SouthoftheAndes]

Again does nobody find it odd that rather than silence criticism which hurts the interest of the natural majority, the majority of idiots **cough*cough** millennials are wanting to silence criticism against FOREIGN and or any minority groups which run counter to the majority. Is that not odd?

Imagine running the British Empire or Roman Empire or Qing dynasty and deciding to silence any criticism against all groups which promote ideas/beliefs that are against your empire.

 

[scrubido]

If speech get restricted, I'm moving to that garbage island in the ocean.