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We all saw it. A young woman stands up at the UN and makes a speech. Instantly she is told to shut up, grow up and learn up.<\/p>\nWe all saw it. A young woman stands up at the UN and makes a speech. Instantly she is told to shut up, grow up and learn up.<\/p>\n
Old men everywhere are suddenly woke and upset that someone said something they didn\u2019t like or agree with.<\/p>\n
A loudmouth chorus reaches crescendo level within minutes of her speech ending.<\/p>\n
Suddenly everyone is telling her to shut up, she\u2019s wrong, she\u2019s retarded, she\u2019s uppity, she\u2019s dumb…<\/p>\n
There is a lesson here though and it\u2019s an important one.<\/p>\n
If Greta had got up and made a speech condemning gay people, or black lives, or published a manifesto explaining the need to mass murder Muslims we wouldn\u2019t be talking about the subject of her speech<\/em>.<\/p>\n We\u2019d be hearing about her right to free speech.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n You know how it goes\u2026 \u201cas much as I disagree with what you say I will defend to the death your right to say it\u201d<\/p>\n This line is trotted out every single time someone engages in hate speech.<\/p>\n But the very same people who champion that line are suddenly forgetting their belief in free speech and want to have a sock shoved down the throat of the speaker.<\/p>\n One of the problems with the free speech activists is they don\u2019t actually believe in free speech at all. They\u2019re just too gutless to say what they want to say, so they support other people who say it and then pretend that it\u2019s about free speech.<\/p>\n These piss-weak arseholes are the enablers of fascism.<\/p>\n Every time a fascist, or a racist, or a far right meathead opens his or her trap and spreads hate right at their side appear these ‘free speech advocates’ telling us we must tolerate their intolerance. But when Greta speaks up there’s a sudden change in the climate of free speech.<\/p>\n Greta learned a very important lesson. Unless you appease the fascists you have no free speech. You have to say your piece then actually defend it.<\/p>\n If only the same rule applied to people who engaged in hate speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We all saw it. A young woman stands up at the UN and makes a speech. Instantly she is told to shut up, grow up and learn up.<\/p>\n Old men everywhere are suddenly woke and upset that someone said something they didn\u2019t like or agree with.<\/p>\n A loudmouth chorus reaches crescendo level within minutes of . . . → Read More: Yes Greta, there is a fascist clause.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7408,"featured_media":695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,91,20,8],"series":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-blog","tag-climate-change","tag-free-speech","tag-life-the-universe-and-everything","tag-politics","odd"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/fascist-clause.jpeg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/?feed=podcast&podcast_series=exposures-the-blog","embedCode":"Yes Greta, there is a fascist clause.<\/a><\/blockquote>