tonyhag opened this issue on Sep 14, 2006 · 47 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Sat, 16 September 2006 at 1:53 PM
Quote - EDIT: "every PC type whiner.." I suspect that `PC' is what people opposing the ban would be called.
Oh.....not really. Hardcore feminists are every bit as anti-porn as any right-winger. Something about politics and strange bedfellows and all of that.
Totally aside from moral issues or criminal issues in regards to violent crimes like the one in question here -- true PC types want all sorts of restrictions on speech -- and this type of ban is just the other side of the coin for left-wingers who are in bed with PC'ism. As "they" say -- be careful what you wish for -- because you just might get it. So now the shoe's on the other foot. And it's hurting.
It's.....another one of those things that is not as cut & dried as some would like to think. Right-wing libertarians would be opposed to such a ban; left-wing feminists & PC'ers would be in favor of it. So it's not truly an issue that you can always divide up so simplistically.
Right now, it's a UK issue. Eventually, it could very well become an issue in the US, too.
A lot of people are very upset about seeing real-world crimes like this in the news. And they are reacting on a gut level to that troubling news. So you can't condemn out-of-hand the motives of the people on the other side of the issue. They have legitimate reasons for real concern.
These days, we live in a world where all of us want to have our cake, and eat it too. Some of us want no restrictions on speech whatsoever (including violent speech - like imams in temples advocating death & destruction) -- but yet we also want to live our lives in total peace and safety. And thus -- an internal, schizophrenic conflict within society as a whole -- trapped by its own contradictory desires.