They've arrested a lady twice for silently praying in her head in front of an abortion clinic. They arrested a Priest for doing the same. The UK has lost their damn minds.
If you explain to people how much “policing of spicy comments” actually costs them :
Police will all rush to sit in the office monitoring twitter because its 100x easier than investigating burglaries.
Also - the trans activists will be the only ones protected online. Because nobody else has political power.
Similarly the only religion protected will be Islam - since they are the only ones supported in their violence and intimidation by the mainstream media when they get upset
Obviously the masses can agree with twitter sometimes, but that doesn't mean pointing at a bunch of twitter replies like it's proof of what the general public wants isn't a bad habit.
As you say, if you want something representative you have to go outside of twitter and poll properly.
I didn't even know why the shirt might be offensive, so I looked around the comments. I find a collection of offended people cheering on the ever encroaching police state. Lovely.
I finally get to some comments by other confused people, and of course there's the standard "EDUCATE YOURSELF" refrain. Why not just explain the offense? Right wing people love to explain what they're pissed off about, even though the explanation is usually labelled offensive anyway. Why can't authoritarian lefties do the same? Why must I read their minds or sift through a ton of information to find the needle in a needle stack of things that offend them?
Looking at the actual explanation, it's possible the shirt is referring to the 97 deaths of Liverpool fans in a stadium collapse and stampede years ago, or it might just be a coincidence, since the points tally for the team was also 97. Still "not enough" to win.
More than likely, the guy wearing the shirt saw the coincidence, chuckled to himself at the dark humor and put it on a shirt. Poort taste, maybe, but still comedy. If there hadn't been a dual explanation, it would've been just dark and tasteless, but that's not the case.
Vague laws about offensive content are ridiculously dumb, in any case.
Censoring helps the narrative. When the media does a story titled "Far-Right Patriot Front Group Unfurls Anti-Semitic Banner Over Freeway. Local Residents Outraged." and shows video of the blurred out "slur", followed by interviews with people in town about how they are SHOCKED that "hate has come to our community" - people are meant take a certain message away from that.
If they just told people the banner said "Jewish people should get vaccinated" most reactions would be head scratching or mild chuckles.
On the other side of the coin, when parents groups read pornographic books on the record at school board meetings - the exact books that are in school libraries - it's reported as protestors causing a disturbance. If they actually broadcast the entirety of the books contents to the wider public, school officials getting fired would be the least of their worries.
The UK is pretty well fucked as far as speech isn’t it? At least in the US the first amendment still does a solid job of keeping the government out of that game, even if the wider public discourse is about little other than trying to bring cOnSeQuEnCeS to people for exercising their freedom of speech. A lot of defiant Cleveland Browns fans wore shirts or displayed signs tastelessly referencing their QB’s record of sexual assault accusations, but all that happened was some Twitter fags made the pictures go viral. The government couldn’t do anything and showed no inclination to do anything.
Which just goes to show, Americans may have, for the most part, invented Wokeism but as bad as we have it here, the later adopters are in much worse positions. Thank God for the Constitution. It isn’t perfect, it isn’t always perfectly followed, but that old parchment still gets the job done.
They've arrested a lady twice for silently praying in her head in front of an abortion clinic. They arrested a Priest for doing the same. The UK has lost their damn minds.
Hahaha, twitter isn't a measure of what the public desires, it's just a measure of what terminally online layabouts and shills want.
If you explain to people how much “policing of spicy comments” actually costs them :
Police will all rush to sit in the office monitoring twitter because its 100x easier than investigating burglaries.
Also - the trans activists will be the only ones protected online. Because nobody else has political power.
Similarly the only religion protected will be Islam - since they are the only ones supported in their violence and intimidation by the mainstream media when they get upset
Obviously the masses can agree with twitter sometimes, but that doesn't mean pointing at a bunch of twitter replies like it's proof of what the general public wants isn't a bad habit.
As you say, if you want something representative you have to go outside of twitter and poll properly.
I didn't even know why the shirt might be offensive, so I looked around the comments. I find a collection of offended people cheering on the ever encroaching police state. Lovely.
I finally get to some comments by other confused people, and of course there's the standard "EDUCATE YOURSELF" refrain. Why not just explain the offense? Right wing people love to explain what they're pissed off about, even though the explanation is usually labelled offensive anyway. Why can't authoritarian lefties do the same? Why must I read their minds or sift through a ton of information to find the needle in a needle stack of things that offend them?
Looking at the actual explanation, it's possible the shirt is referring to the 97 deaths of Liverpool fans in a stadium collapse and stampede years ago, or it might just be a coincidence, since the points tally for the team was also 97. Still "not enough" to win.
More than likely, the guy wearing the shirt saw the coincidence, chuckled to himself at the dark humor and put it on a shirt. Poort taste, maybe, but still comedy. If there hadn't been a dual explanation, it would've been just dark and tasteless, but that's not the case.
Vague laws about offensive content are ridiculously dumb, in any case.
Censoring helps the narrative. When the media does a story titled "Far-Right Patriot Front Group Unfurls Anti-Semitic Banner Over Freeway. Local Residents Outraged." and shows video of the blurred out "slur", followed by interviews with people in town about how they are SHOCKED that "hate has come to our community" - people are meant take a certain message away from that.
If they just told people the banner said "Jewish people should get vaccinated" most reactions would be head scratching or mild chuckles.
On the other side of the coin, when parents groups read pornographic books on the record at school board meetings - the exact books that are in school libraries - it's reported as protestors causing a disturbance. If they actually broadcast the entirety of the books contents to the wider public, school officials getting fired would be the least of their worries.
If you have to "educate yourself" enough about a topic to be offended, it's probably not that offensive.
The UK police have arrested mothers in front of their own kids for merely tweeting that a trans was a “pig in a wig”
The fact is that Suella Braverman’s party has been in power for a decade. She could change the laws.
But no - she merely “recommends” police stop arresting people.
Worse than absolutely useless.
Seems like WWII was a waste of time for England given that they now have less rights than a German citizen in 1938.
The UK is pretty well fucked as far as speech isn’t it? At least in the US the first amendment still does a solid job of keeping the government out of that game, even if the wider public discourse is about little other than trying to bring cOnSeQuEnCeS to people for exercising their freedom of speech. A lot of defiant Cleveland Browns fans wore shirts or displayed signs tastelessly referencing their QB’s record of sexual assault accusations, but all that happened was some Twitter fags made the pictures go viral. The government couldn’t do anything and showed no inclination to do anything.
Which just goes to show, Americans may have, for the most part, invented Wokeism but as bad as we have it here, the later adopters are in much worse positions. Thank God for the Constitution. It isn’t perfect, it isn’t always perfectly followed, but that old parchment still gets the job done.
I don’t get what his shirt is in reference to.