Why Is FREE SPEECH Important?
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A free society depends on exchanging new ideas, regardless of their potential capability of offending someone. Without the open exchange of ideas , our current understanding of the world would be unrecognizable and entirely false. Everything we know about the world- from the age of our civilization and species to the laws that govern energy and the complex workings of the body & brain - has come into being first by free speech, nurtured by the innovation of ideas, and curated into our collective knowledge if deemed worthwhile after withstanding the test of time.
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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ― George Washington
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After Skool - I enjoyed and concur with most of your discourse. My question is off topic a bit, but I am curious about the ideas you may have about explicit threats and free speech. Are our current laws in such matters sufficient or do you favor any changes?
Freedom of Speech is so the government cannot control what the people say. Some words should be banned, like screaming bomb at an airport. It's to protect the people from unnecessary discord or chaos, after all, while shopping for groceries, you don't want someone screaming "he's got a gun" making everyone panic and flee from no danger; to have no consequences. I'd like to live in a world where no one screams something dangerous as a joke, yet it has gotten so extreme that things like swatting exists.
This creates the question, if words which is supposedly harmless, suddenly creates discord, should it get banned?
Obviously, the answer should be no. If something like gay invokes a person into an outrage, the fault is the person, not the word. But, what if a lot of people get triggered by the word gay, is it still the persons fault? After all, it creates discord and we have rules set to prevent it.
Even if we were to label banned words to be limited to words that express threat. Like you are only allowed to shout danger, if there is real danger. What would define that? If gay is a threat to who the person is, would that count? If human life and death is involved, then politically correct, crazy or insane would still be under the banned category.
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I'm just being the devils advocate, the problem is not words, it's the people that judge them.
People are stupid and they want to live in a world, they only know.
Usually I would agree with you but in the cases you used to defend censorship were cases of scientific advancements and upsetting religiones. Science and innovation nowadays is celebrated and encouraged more than ever. The political correctness movement is going a bit far and turning into censorship but the types of words being targeted aren't those that would ever hinder scientific advancements and innovation, it targets words that promote divide and prejudice towards or between one another. So I don't think this video has a very good argument.
In what ways would it be considered promoting? In what ways would it it create social division?
Is it not the persons want that does that, not the words? If that so, why are the words considered bad, instead of the person? Is deeming a person saying bigotry not enough?
Would you consider it unreasonable for "banned" words to be used in discussions?
He who sacrifices liberty for the sake of security deserves neither. - Benjamin Franklin
+Mason Buskirk
That's a bit hyperbolic, this is not a first amendment issue. Colleges are private or semi-private institutions and they set the rules on campus.
Having said that I think public funding (at least for liberal arts) should be withheld for colleges that suppress free speech on campus. It's not like these liberal arts activists were ever going to be useful members of society.
Good suggestion.
Free speech for Assange and Snowden!!!
"..and will lose both"
Liberty wont save u from hunger nor give u safety
Censorship is just plain wrong. Freedom of speech is too important. If an idea is dumb let it be exposed. Dumb ideas don't usually fly to well once they're understood.
Ikr, like scientists were burned alive because their ideas were different and then we fought for centuries to stop that from happening, and now we have to deal with that shit all over again.
Okay, maybe not the burning part, but we're getting there.
Communism clearly did though, look at how the political spectrum is completely shifted to the extreme left nowadays.. but yeah, for the most part I agree with you, although saying that free speech is perfect is definitely wrong, problems don’t just solve themselves, but sometimes not solving them is better than trying to and introducing bigger problems (like slowly taking away free speech...)
which is why we should avoid communism and hate it because this is what communism wants to do
Well, how can the masses fall into techno-religions if they're not 'conveniently' forced into it?
No matter what i write in coment section,i will allways get coment warnings.Its just not fair,becouse we don't know,which words we are banned to write.And we are not talking here about few rude words,but the exchange of real life experience and truth by youtube.I write my coments on youtube for 10 years,and in that time i never get coment warning.Their is something else happening here,and it feels more like catholic feudalism,rather than 'etical guidelines'.Just think about it,who we know don't like freedom of speach,personal liberties,and different way of lifestyle.And this coment warnings has started during Covid crisis,but their root goes back to 9/11 2000,with patriotic act.And i have experienced my first unpleasant coment warning in october of 2022,and this will go forever,unless we don't sing online petition against coment warnings on youtube.PS:Beside i can't live in fear of coment warnings,since i'm epileptitian,and i get panicked just by one coment warning.And i'm not joking,i have allmost get heart atack.
If someone's feelings are hurt because of a WORD, then it's the problem of the listener, not the speaker.
STOP YOU'RE HURTING ME
You're very ugly
Libor Tinka Hate Speech is wrong and one has every right to be offended. Though saying fuck for example and getting offended is just stupid. That word in no way supports discrimination.
dankpimp06 Where do you live? WTF, good luck.
@dankpimp06 in Indonesia there's a public figure who badmouthed an organization and was immediately put in jail for fucking 5 years. Meanwhile there was a head chief of anti corruption agency who got poured by a man with some chemical and damaged his eyes, the suspect was sentenced for 1 year only. WTF
Ironic that this video can be demonetized from RUclips because it doesn't have "ad-friendly" content.
it was :/
Navos RUclips is a private company and their only goal is to make money. They’re not shutting down free speech
Is that really true?
If RUclips don't play ads on videos, they don't make money.
Content creators must adhere to the bots, or they don't make money. So content creators have to censor what they say or show, in order to eat or pay bills.
RUclips is indirectly telling it's content creators what is allowed and what is not.
It's like telling slaves they can leave anytime, they got the freedom to go! But if the slaves leave, they'll starve. It's very forceful, like an indirect law.
Navos Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like what RUclips is doing, but we can’t go and say this is against free speech. It’s their website, they can do whatever they want. I do agree with your slave analogy though.
But RUclips actually earn more money doing this. Not putting ads on videos that are harmful or offensive that is, but they are doing it on too many videos now that aren’t even harmful. The companies that put these ads here don’t want their ads on offensive videos because they don’t want to be associated with that. So if RUclips put their ads on there, they will just stop advertising on here. That will lead to RUclips earning less money.
It makes perfect sense for companies not wanting to be involved with bad content, but RUclips censors are beyond terrible. They simply cannot distinguish good from bad, so, it's all bad until proven okay.
HOWEVER it's still a terrible system, the good intent leads to a bad consequence. Censoring is still censoring, it's still controlling free speech despite the intentions being different. No excuse, it is, what it is doing. Looking the other way because the intent is good, is bad.
For example, you were to build a dam to prevent yearly flooding, the flooding drastically limits activity of trade and creates building damage every spring. However, local fishing villages lost their rivers, thus losing income and work, not to mention permanently damaged the local ecosystem. You must be responsible, "wanting to do the right thing" is not an excuse for letting bad things happen.
Sometimes you just have to suffer, for a long term, permanent, even pricey solution.
"Facts don't care about your feelings" - Ben Shapiro
ᖇOSS Tᕼᕮ Sᗩᑌᑕᕮ ᗷOSS Yeah I agree, I prefer Steven Pinker and Sam Harris :)
Funny thing is, right wing people who are usually the ones that use that quote, do not know a single thing about scientific facts, or get half things wrong or misundestood.
Frankie A I agree, that's why 90% of people ignore scientific facts and continue to eat meat despite it being unhealthy, damaging for the environment and unethical. I can provide you facts for all three.
Patryk Karter
Yeah but meat tastes good
ᖇOSS Tᕼᕮ Sᗩᑌᑕᕮ ᗷOSS "Yeah but rape feels good." Doesn't make it ethical does it?
I'm from the UK and envy your freedom and most of you want to throw it away "you can't offend you can only be offended" being offeneded is subjective. Wake up.
Source that most of us want to throw it away?
It is a small percentage of Americans who’ve been brainwashed by their marxist professors trying to oust free speech. Any American who has actually read the constitution would proudly fight and die for it and what it stands for
Jarod What Marxist professors? You guys are the ones who lose their shit when someone tries to criticize Israel. Look at Ilhan Omar.
The second you limit others right to free speech is the second you limit your own.
so what
Well said. Also one of the reasons why I'm working on a side project - Everchat (everch.at)
@@user-es6bn1we5z what does that mean?
I bursted out laughing when male and female appeared in the banned words list. xD I know this is a huge problem, but it's so ridiculous! What are colleges gonna ban next? snow? milk?
It's not huge problem, it's a made up one.
Alex DemiHuman
It IS a huge problem! Social media and information platforms are silencing independent journalism and free thinking. They brag about it it is very real
Alex DemiHuman
The issue on college campuses is indeed greatly exaggerated though I will agree.
I am going to say this but there are 2 [removed by RUclips]
We should actually ban colleges, wait, the tuition fees becoming that high will do it.
Why do we need closed private colleges ? close them all. If there's one thing that should be public access is college. (Ironically the communists there never talk about this, wonder why....)
They are getting rid of more and more words every year. Sounds a bit like newspeak to me🤔
Orwell predicted this would happen
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words are violence and you should burn at the stake if I don’t like them.” -The morally superior politically correct
This is a Witch Hunt, and they are hunting critical thinkers this time.
Yeah regardless of what you believe I think it's crucial to be open minded to other peoples opinions. When you are open to other peoples opinions, you will either change your point of view to the correct one, or your point of view will be strengthened. It is a win win
Quality video mate, keep up the great work! Looking forward to working with you :)
Sometimes you shouldn't change your pov for the better good.
Better cna be subjective unless you agree on the criteria for BETTER. Also don't fall into the trap of thinking that just because you changed your mind or strengthened your own it means you are correct. We tend to affirm our beliefs even stronger when confronted
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"Freedom only has its worth when you are also free to make mistakes"
I like that, very good! 👍👍👍
Thanks for your support on our freedoms
Family First
Americans think they have free speech haha!
That’s cute they can say whatever they want but US government doesn’t give a shit about them!
American citizens are like mice that squeak behind the walls for gayness and transsexuals but don’t dare to get under foot of their government.
@@Mega6501 US is they only country where the government is afraid of the citizens, because of the 2 amendment (you know the guns we have). We have the guns to destroy the gov it if tries to do something to us. So we are they only nation of true freedom.
Anonymo US
Gun laws are a targeted right now it might not last for to long unless people take a legitimate stand.
The Australian runner who stood on the podium with the civil rights activists supported them, he wore a pin in unity with them and they wore his black leather gloves, that's why they had opposite fists hoisted in the air. You've animated him as if he's against their free speech when nothing could be further from the truth, he was even banned from competing for Australia afterwards and refused to apologise. He couldn't even get a job as a gym teacher and when they made a statue of the podium, the sculptor asked if he could use his likeness, he said to leave the space empty so others can stand with them in solidarity. His name was Peter Norman and he was a hero.
True free speech will never be achieved as long as we live in a society.
Free Count Dankula.
FCD!
Just used this to help some kids on discord who were upset by a racist post. They took the advice and with some help from dad, they countered a bad idea with good ones.
'The war on consciousness' is a Ted talk from Graham Hancock that was banned but then reposted because of popular demand. He made a point and that offended materialist.
This video is even more accurate 3 years later...
Its aging extremly well even to day
Yes 5 year after it real
The problem with censorship is that it takes away people's reasons to not use violence, and it can be used by the opposing side to justify violence and paint themselves as the victim, making it easier for the opposing side to recruit people, many germans became nazis out of fear of being assaulted
And the whole world is heading that way and we deserve it for allowing ourselves to grow soft
We Do Not Tolerate Intolerance HERE!
nice one
I hope that this video won't be delete4d for 1:45...
nah
the youtube bots are going nuts right now
It won't. That's just part of free speech. :)
One of the reasons why I and my friend are making Everchat (everch.at) :)
@@Onionbagelbots shouldnt be used, that deceptive practice
"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" _ Voltaire.
This is the beginning of a very important conversation everyone needs to have. Urgently.
You people get it. I hate where our colleges have gone in the past 10 years and its the biggest reason I don't want to go to college to get a degree. This is even more worse for me as more and more jobs are requiring me to go to college and get a degree just to get a basic job so I can survive.
Go to college and realize it isn't that bad.
a place where saying anything that could be construed as offensive can get you kicked out and getting on a college woman's bad side will ruin your life. yeah sure lets go with that.
This video: *exists*
China: wait that's illegal.
And Russia
When religions and politics dictate what's acceptable to say, we lose our basic rights.
Freedom of speech can not limited without being lost. If we lose the freedom of speech , we will lose other freedoms too.
Nicolaus Copernicus wasn't the one who discovered that the earth revolves around the sun, someone way before that was the ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos and that was 18 centuries before in the third century B.C.E.
However, even earlier speculation of this dates back to the 9th century B.C.E when the Indian philosopher Yajnavalkya(who was part of a Vedic Tradition which used mathematics and geometry in some religious rituals) wrote in a sacred Hindu text: “The sun strings these worlds - the earth, the planets, the atmosphere - to himself on a thread.”
This is one of the first recorded references to heliocentrism.
This popped up on my recommended today after Parler was banned completely
Freedom of speech can only be protected with freedom to bare arms against oppressors if necessary. But also debate and open discussion is important for the future to become better.
Somebody needs to tell the ADL about how important free speech is since this group is working hard to silence many who don't agree with them.
I can't wait to finish this video so I can share it
Imagine if he made this video and then just diabled the comments
Ha
Censorship does NOT belong in a progressive society.
Or any society for that matter.
Free speech is very important as we enable people to share information and ideas whether they are extroverted or introverted.. this essentially help people to express and understand and know the truth and boundaries and learn how we human can connect with one another around the world without direct face connection.. it’s mentally healthy to share than not.. which brings people out of the blocked bubble and come out and think outside of the box use of new vocabularies and learn expressionism .. it’s an incredible experience as a human being to do so ironically not all countries allowed,though even if it’s just a normal basic communication that eventually one get arrested which is sad
Thank you for being honest and adressing this issue as the problem it is, it seems like often people dont want us to talk about it. Victim mentality will ruin civilization as we know it if we dont teach coming generations to be functional and strong adults
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While I disagree with the core point of the video, I give you kudos for the polite and balanced presentation of this points. May we continue the discussion with mutual respect. Thanks!
What do you disagree with? Free speech?
The book of Copernicus was dedicated to a pope and he got a promotion after that. People criticized it because it contradicted observation (he used cycles, but this was wrong Kepler solved it very later with ellipsis).
No such thing as hate speech
Fuck you
the causal no u
So there is hate speech
No there isn't, hate speech is subjective. What you see as "hate speech", I may not.
So then say that, rather than "there's no such thing".
I really like what you do in this channel. Sometimes it feels like so many things are wrong in our humanity and it's a relief to see other people feel the same way and tell us to fight for making things right, despite the pressure our surroundings want to apply to us. Thanks for that.
Thank you so much!
You are welcome! You can't imagine how good I feel when I watch your videos, they comfort me and in a way tell me to do my part. I hope my voice will reach as many people as you one day, and as much as yours reached me.
Thanks for giving your sources!! I'm working on an attechement rn so really need those
I still wanna know exactly what can I get away with only using freedom of expression
We need freedom of speech,. but it needs to be balanced. There are some things that should be banned, such as hate speech, racism, bullying, sexism, incitement to violence. There also needs to be restrictions for national security, privacy and protecting people against slander. It is about finding the right balance between freedom of expression and preventing bullying, and threats to national security.
Just because someone says something that offends you doesn’t mean they did on purpose. And just because something someone says offends you doesn’t mean it isn’t true. And while you might expect someone to apologize if they accidentally offend, that doesn’t mean they have an obligation to recant what they’ve said if it’s true. I’m not suggesting a free pass for people who go around completely inconsiderate of others feelings, but I am suggesting that while limitless free speech may or may not be a human right, going through life without ever being offended by anything is definitely not.
All speech is free speech, period.
No one has any authority to restrict speech, no one has any right to decide what others can or can not say.
The US is the only nation in the world where free speech exists.
The 1A is protected by the 2A, never forget that!
The government has used "desacato" laws in Chile to silence critics and journalists, that's not free speech! Free speech in Chile has been abridged multiple times.
Patriotism isn't "shit".
According to the WEC, freedom of speech doesn't exist in other countries anywhere near the extent that it does in the US.
The US is the only nation in the world where free speech is absolute.
Chile has had a rough past when it comes to freedom of speech, especially between the 70's and 90's, it's made improvements since then but is still well below the US when it comes to free speech.
Just like in my own country (the UK), freedom of speech doesn't exist, we have many broad and subjective laws, including stupid "hate speech" laws that restrict speech, yet Brits typically think we have free-speech when we actually don't.
And that's why I want to get the fuck out of Canada and into the US soon (legally, obviously).
The British Patriot All speech is free? Hitler likes this.
+The British Patriot _"The US is the only nation in the world where free speech is absolute."_
So things like slander and death threats are legal now in the US? Wow, you'd think something like that would make the news...
Last year, 400 people were arrested in Russia for the words they said on social networks. How many people do you think were arrested in the UK for making statements on social networks last year? 3300. One example is a young 19-year-old woman from Liverpool - Chelsea Russell. Her friend died in a car accident and she posted the lyrics to his favorite song on Instagram. It was a rap and the words "nigga" were in the song. She was arrested, convicted, found guilty and sentenced to 500 hours of community service and a fine. in Ukraine, according to the office of the Prosecutor General, more than 24,000 people were arrested for words last year.
Last night someone had written an article online about how they weren't a rape culture, after years of me trying to talk about my abuses I've suffered on-line and with
others with no acknowledgement or help. Yes they are, and let's establish who the 'they' are since everyone always asks. 'They' are the WASP's who raised children and manipulated their minds that weren't their own, and other disgusting non human things they are hand in hand with. They have horrible eyes, very cold eyes, and they are loveless, but are good at pretending they can be in the public eye. 'They' are about rules, manners, education and conformity, whereas real people are about love and equality and warmth and happiness. 'They' care about materialistic wealth, control, power, property, and are competitive and regimented. People like to have fun and share and enjoy each other's talents. People believe in freedom and free will and free speech, and they don't. 'They' enslave people, blind us, and sexually molested and abused us. 'They' are evil and 'they' refuse to acknowledge, or accept responsibility or allow victims to have a voice and seek true justice. 'They' not only sexualized children, they also made children molest each other. The rape of my life continued into my adulthood, and the last time I was violated I was terrorized, thrown to the streets and quickly realized the police were not going to help. They have done very disgusting things to my body, and I have the proof inside me, but I can't find a doctor human enough to acknowledge or help. 'They' ARE a rape culture, they are perverse and they are cowards who refuse to acknowledge what they are. I could write a list of assaults and abuses done against me by 'them' but there are less and less real people who care, and more of them who don't and prefer to deny or discredit victims. There are shameless idiots on the internet, on RUclips and even on the news who are making up false claims and sensationalizing abuse they claim to have suffered, which is a slap in the face to real victims whom they refuse to give truth or justice, and have been isolated, terrorized and made to look insane or accused of false crimes. When 'they' say they're not a rape culture, I am convinced they have no ability to be honest, and they are deviants who have no morals, no shame and no integrity. In fact, I think they can't exist without raping or abusing someone or something in their lives, including life itself. They don't acknowledge the rape of people, they don't acknowledge the rape of children and they still haven't acknowledged the rape of nature and this planet. The very fact they deny us a public voice or justice is proof of how 'they' are nothing BUT a rape society and culture.
I thought I understood free speech because I applied the more appealing notion that sells it better by imagining oneself being able to say something without being censored (or repressed, forbidden etc.) until I read the less appealing but more realistic and effective quote of Robert J. Samuelson: “Free speech is not speech you agree with, uttered by someone you admire. It's speech that you find stupid, selfish, dangerous, uninformed or threatening, spoken and sponsored by someone you despise, fear or ridicule. Free speech is unpopular, contentious and sometimes ugly. It reflects a tolerance for differences. If everyone agreed on all things, we wouldn't need it.” Then when I think of REAL free speech I don’t imagine a kind of hero trying to say something that I agree with that helps confirm my own ideas, I imagine someone trying to express something that I DO NOT agree with and I don’t like, trying to express something that I think I know it is not true who tries to induce it onto others. In that way I can REALLY know if I am really being in favor of free speech or I fall for the false alternative (“you have only the right to say what we already think it is true and moral/ethical”). Of course that as long as it doesn’t call for the physical harm of others (that is in tune with the same humanistic values that hold the real free speech).
Finally i get to say what i was thinking about when the comments of this video was disabled
Me: *sees title*
Comments: *disabled*
Also me: hold on this whole operation was your idea
Politically volatile, however remains a basic human right.
Certain groups don't even want to hear : LAW ABIDING PEOPLE ARE RESPECTED AND OUT OF JAIL. THATS CALLED ENFORCEMENT , THE CORE OF ORDER IN AN ORGANIZED SOCIETY.
How crazy this world is, I read the book 1984 while I lived in Sweden that exact year!! George Orwell was a little too early but now 39 yrs later one can easy see we're heading that way, which makes me sad! To have Big Brother control everything is not my kind of life...forbidden to read books, not allowed to have faith, not allowed to show feelings or look anyone in their eyes. Then what have we become? Most of us hopefully will be shifted on to the next level of existence 5d before Antichrist is in charge and One World Government . Even tho it goes fast now, they talk about 2030! Pray and follow your life Path number to know what you are here to do in this life and become spiritual with faith, that's what we are here to learn, who we are 🙏💞 God Loves Us ALL!
I love your work.
Thank you!
It's so ironic that the most censored places in the U.S. are Universities.
That's why people should learn to not blindly trust things or be dependent so much. Like assuming colleges and schools are places of the most free speech or foster learning the most.
People are so incredibly ignorant about Freedom of speech. is NOT about RIGHT OR WRONG . It’s about giving equal platform to all humankind to speak and prevent power imbalance by not letting authority or hierarchical fed powers block or influence speech. Because no can censor the opinions of such top authority .
Freedom of speech is about equality and avoid speech corruption .
If we stopped gifting colleges with vast amounts of hard earned tax dollars, they wouldn’t have the luxury of wasting money on oppressive ‘studies ‘ courses. So ending grants and government guaranteed student loans is step 1.
99% of colleges and universities don't ban words...
But muh liberal elite turning the frickin' kids gay!
Liam Colvin Yes, Only a few colleges have gone so far as to ban words, but I know almost all colleges have put out speech guides and words they call "problematic". My friend was kicked out of class for using one of these "problematic" words.
Markus Woods well he applied to the wrong school
To be honest free speech is where the risk out way the reward
Thank you for this video more people need to know how close we are to losing free speech
Imagine if they disabled comments for this video
Why did it sound like Cardi B giggling at 0:54
Trying to get rid of free speech because it hurts peoples feelings is like trying to make breathing illegal because you could choke.
what u might think is objectivity is often times just a collective subjectivity (an intersubjectivity). a collective of subjects who share the same subjective opinion.
it seems as concrete as objectivity but it is still flexible.
being part of the subjective collective can provide you with benefits and it would be in your best interest to maintain that collective and make seem as concrete as possible.
That's why we need free speech to learn and get to the truth more.
Catholics didn't oppose Copernicus, it was Protestants after the Reformation. Commonly misunderstood piece of history, same with the trial of Galileo.
Crevetta
_Copernicus_
Ohio State
www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/Unit3/response.html
CS Monitor
www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2013/0219/Copernicus-and-the-Church-What-the-history-books-don-t-say
Polish Astronomer J. G. HAGEN, Catholic.com
www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/nicolaus-copernicus
_Galileo_
Today I Found Out (Sources in Description)
ruclips.net/video/_d9OkDLd-iw/видео.html
If you're offended it means you should listen. You might learn something.
Either way say wtf you gotta say........I was born free and I'm gonna die free....live as I want to not imaginary rules n laws.....As long as no one gets hurt live your life
If we want to create welcoming, inclusive communities, we should be doing everything we can to turn down the tribalism and turn up the sense of common humanity.
- Greg Lukianoff, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Free specch is important; a license to offend isn't. Alt right take note.
so 'bigots' don't deserve free speech?
i disagree, as anyone can just call someone who shares different views 'bigot'
goffookyourself You need to go back and rewatch the video. Missed the point by a mile.
FREE COUNT DANKULA!
bad ideas aren’t defeated by good ideas. All the ideas that were drawn are still up.
Then what do you want? Censorship? Good vs evil is a constant fight, and we have to keep going. Spreading good ideas did have some victories. If not, then why do it? You try to do that by commenting on yt. If it means nothing why do you comment? Why do some people think bad ideas are influential but good ideas are not just as much?
Is it possible that taking away free speech actually makes differences and hostility worse? When presented with threat of censorship and the possibility of censoring do we not begin to feel that we have have a right and duty to censor other people because of the possibility to do so has made us afraid? And do not views become more extreme the more you surpress and hate them?
We can't deny or silence the truth and facts just because they happen to be inconvenient and expose who we really are.
There would be no science, industrialization and medicine absent of freedom of expression and exchange of ideas.
Freedom of speech is an amazing thing. Everyone has the right to voice their opinions and speak their minds, as long as they are not meant to be offensive. If you don't like someone or something, it's okay. You are free to like who/whatever you want to like. However, there is a difference between voicing an opinion and insulting someone. No one has the right to insult another person just because of religion, race, looks, sexual orientation, personal views and preferences which are not meant to offend anyone etc. People should only be judged because of their personality.
So the college thing is blown way out of proportion. Almost always, the "banned words" are actually a series of suggestions on how to have more empathetic and compassionate language in official communications. Which is perfectly fine! It's completely okay for an organization to try to minimize harm or offense caused by their communications with students and faculty. It's not like there's campus thought police hanging around arresting people for saying "gay" or whatever.
Furthermore, the research I've done shows that you've presented that list of words in a very reductive way. It's not banned to ever say "gay", but I found where it was recommended to not say "that's gay" because it uses another person's identity to describe something negative. "Crazy", "Insane", and "Lame" are all words that both describe mental illness of physical disability, and using them as derogatory statements, again, uses another person's identity to describe something negative.
These recommendations are about self-reflection and education, not about censorship, and you're unfairly presenting the issue. Safe-spaces are not there for students because "someone might get offended" but because it's compassionate to provide a trigger-free place for people actually suffering from mental illness (like PTSD or depression) due to trauma.
The Right Wing Media has twisted these facts to present stories that continue to attack the "liberal academic elite" which they perceive as a threat. And you're kind of repeating their talking points. It's your right to say it, and I believe that you should never have that right curtailed, but it's my right to call you out for dishonestly twisting the facts.
Randy Knapp Most of these words are used to critique bad behavior and habbits, so if youre fat, you should be criticized for not keeping your weight in check, and you should be given an opportunity to ask how you should get thinner, and in the end you benefit. As for safe spaces, most of people today dont actually have any of mental issues you described, they just dont want their feelings hurt, which is a sure way to stagnate in this world.
I understand where you are coming from, but the actual instances of that happening are very rare. In a truly free society, a person can use their free speech to ask that certain topics be covered more sensitively in a class, and the instructor has the right to acquiesce to the request or to deny it. All of that is free speech.
I also categorically disagree with you. There is no "should" about criticizing someone for their flaws. Doing so is certainly protected under free speech, but it could also be super rude and make that person mad at you (which is their right under free speech as well!). And if you really think that you "should" criticize people for traits that you perceive as flaws, then that's a major reflection on your lack of compassion, not on them.
Metal Botanist Most people aren't overweight because no one has pointed it out to them, or because they don't know how to become thinner. If shaming them for their weight helped them then there would be many fewer overweight people, particularly at schools where such things are more common. Doing so will likely just make them feel bad, causing them to ignore and withdraw from the people that are directing negativity at them, and making them want to turn to food for comfort.
Randy Knapp Let me clarify, i meant constructive criticism "You should work on your body, i have some tips how you can do that" , not "Ur fat lol". Being offended is something you choose to do, instead of getting offended at everything, you should consider "Is what this person is saying true or not?" and look into it. You are in control of your responses, it just takes will to actually control them. Pain and suffering do not come from things people say, but from how you react to it, and for an adult to let themselves be harmed by mere words is childlish and speaks of an even deeper flaw, lack of self control/mastery.
Metal Botanist Either way people will know if they want to work on their body and will seek the information if they want it. Being offended is generally an emotional reaction, and emotions are often not easily controlled. If all emotional/mental pain and suffering comes from how you react and control yourself then people would be able to remove this entirely from their life, but most people are always going to feel some hurt and sadness at various points in their life, whether because someone has said something that has hurt that person or by other means. To me it's more important to not upset someone by being careful of what I say than it is to be able to just say anything to them. But that is just my choice, and I respect yours.
This video is so helpful to humanity☺
Or is that just what the alien lizard cyborgs want you to think
Dinosaur Hub hmmm maybe , what’s your thoughts on everything going on right now ?!
Free speech is the only way that idea spread around but true free speech will never exist as long as we live in a society.
1:10 instead of “where are you from” just use something like “whence dost thou hail”. People who will punish you for not following the rules probably won’t understand you
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Fuck 'm, move to New York city and see if last a day.
We hired a kid fresh off his parents farm, home schooled and raised in
a great Mormon family. Nicest people you never met. It wasn't an hour
That he was very troubled by the customers foul language....
Three weeks later he had adjusted to life in the big city.
One’s right to *Freedom of Speech* still does not guarantee *Freedom of Consequence* so don’t get carried away with it
Having words banned from campus looks both frightening and ludicrous to me.
But what do we Europeans know...
It is not Free Speech what hurts some individuals, whats hurts is the lack of capacity of dealing with truth.
Finding out your world was a lie you created to feel and live in confort must mot be nice. But it is not the speakers responsability, it is your responsability.
The human race doesn't really believe in free speech or any other human right. I've seen this in my own generation of SJWs and my parents' generation of social and political conservatives. It is the rare person who does believe and does listen to others.
Wow This video is awesome. Another one like this would be Great about the book Nonviolent Communication!
Censoring freedom of speech is so subjective it can’t be a good thing. You may think your values are right and thus descending opinions should be shut down for hurting your cause, but Nazis and communists believed the same thing. Only by allowing everybody to have a voice can the population reason with and come to a conclusion on which values are most important, and the average person is generally not hateful otherwise our social society could not function. Thank you for providing solid reasoning in this short video for why our rights are important without being attacking to others.
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1. Copernicus didn't "discover" the Earth revolving around the Sun - this idea was much, much older, and actually his calculations that suppose to back up this claim were flaved in the first place.
2. He, personally, met with fierce resistence from evangelicans (Martin Luther, anyone?) in the first place, not the catholics. It is a quite a time after the publication that his book "De revolutionibus..." was banned (ti placed placed on the Index of Forbidden Books) by Vatican authorities, under different leader, "political climate" aso.
Thank you for sharing your freedom speech
In my opinion, I am all for free speech, and as this video explains, that's not the same as giving bigots a free pass. I would like to expand on that notion by saying it also does not give bullies a free pass, either. Stating an opinion is one thing, but another entirely to actively attack somebody verbally, consciously destroying a target's reputation. With that in mind, while I love how South Park (the famous TV show) makes fun of the fact humans even have boundaries to begin with, I am of the opinion that there still is a line to cross between civil discussion and verbal assault. Another opinion, while I can see the meaning of "words can hurt," I also believe that most in this current generation are too sensitive and are emotionally injured too easily.
Everything I say here is opinion, and not intended to insult or defame, yet somehow I am counting on it all be twisted in such ways. From personal experience, this problem isn't just in schools, but all over the Internet. There have been rumors of Tumbler's (deliberate spelling choice to not give the actual site the satisfaction of *its* misspelling) community being extremely "PC" as it were, and I heard a story about a gun club having to change an image on Facebook because they put a picture of a gun up, when it was meant to promote the legal and safe activities. Plus, I remember a legend about a person getting banned from a group on the chat program Discord over an opinion about getting annoyed with how up-in-arms the transgender community are about their specific...desire, for lack of better words. Can you imagine? Getting punished (or bullied) for having an opinion...that is absolutely frightening. With that mindset, I am OK if someone has (for example) a racist opinion, though I will still say, "I strongly disagree." But using that racist opinion as motivation for bullying is NOT OK.
In conclusion, I fully agree that Freedom of Speech is under as much hate now as is the Freedom of Firearms (though that is another topic for another time). And I agree that we must do everything we can to protect it, although unlike traditional times, it's not as simple as "beat the tyrants in a war to the death." And I do think the entire PC mindset, while well-intended, is absurd and crazy. Yes, I am deliberately using their "banned words" specifically to defy them. I heard a proverb: "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." And if that is true in this case, well, I should fund my Iconic Golden Battle Armor, because I'll see them in Hell!
wtf are these banned words. how is female, male, a sexuality, and asking where someone is from "problematic"
Free speech is unique to the USA other countries do not have free speech they have restricted speech. in canada or the UK you can be put in jail for saying anything they deem and hate speech, hate speech being a completely subjective term!
I am writing on June 12, 2022 and what was said 4 years ago in this video shows that once a group can control speech, that fight to hold that control at all cost. What cost are we willing to pay to get Free Speech back?
We need good ideas to counter bad ideas
@@sahilhossian8212 ideas I don't agree with = bad
And then you go talk about legalising weed
God bless you for making this video
The world is just getting to sensitive, we should all have the right to free speech.
I’m confused by the quizzical look (3:34) drawn onto the guy on the second place level. If you know the story behind that picture, he’s the one who gave the black gloves to Tommie Smith and John Carlos for them to raise their fists.
Awesome Video
offended is just a feeling; if feelings are hurt is it a crime?
This is a real issue. Polls show lower support of and lower awareness of the right to free speech than previous generations. This is a worrying concern.
But, there was really a college campus that banned the words "male" and "female"? Sources please?
I don't doubt that some fringe SJW types might object to the words you listed but I just can't bring myself to believe that a college somewhere has actually banned any of these words. I could imagine a college officially publishing opinions on how those words should be used or how people should be careful about how they use them and probably going far overboard with political correctness in that regard, but actually banning any of those words is hard to believe.
If true, then I would like to know about it, which is why I am asking for sources.
To people saying they are problematic, seriously? The only thing I find a little bit problematic (though "just a little annoying" is really a better phrase for how I feel about this) is the use of the word "gay" to mean "uncool" or "stupid", but even then I recognize that the people using the word that way don't mean it as an insinuation that there is anything wrong with being a homosexual. I do find the choice of the word annoying, partly because I'm gay, but there are bigger issues to focus on rather than wasting energy persuading people to stop using a word a certain way. I rather persuade people to support efforts to end climate change, or persuade people to oppose the wasteful and environmentally harmful border wall.
And yes, I understand that speaking out about how this or that word is problematic is not in and of itself anti-free speech. You may be completely against any governmental action against the word usage. Still, it's a waste of your time and a waste of political capital to focus on policing language. People hate having their language policed. Take grammar nazis for example. Do you feel more like listening to or siding with someone who just corrected your grammar? Same thing with pushing political correctness. It's an emotional and not a logical response for sure, but people will actually become predisposed to oppose you on other things if you pester them about how they speak. If you want to win in persuading people on bigger political issues leave people's language alone.
But there is one thing people preaching political correctness are right about. Language does have the capacity to influence other people. So apply that understanding to yourself and choose which words you think are the best words to get people to listen to you explain your opinions. Using language to police others' language will just influence people to oppose you. Ironcially you could say I'm doing that right now since I'm talking about how to best use language if you want to influence people politically, but this is just advice. Take it or leave it.