...a man who wore a tasteless shirt in poor taste regarding the tragedy at Hillsborough and caused someone offence is arrested for a criminal offence. He could face jail for this and he'll probably have to be kept out of the public eye as he has had his personal identity and details leaked on social media (not by the Police) with people threatening his safety.
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/MetPoliceEvents/status/1665029777676173320
The absolute state of the replies with virtually everyone dogpiling on anyone who dares raise the spectre of his free speech rights, even if it makes him look an absolute fool and moron. Maybe justification for Wembley stadium, a private establishment, to refuse him entry, but not for the reaction that we've seen.
This is the Grenfell Tower bonfire joke all over again. Yes, a tasteless joke and in poor taste but they should be allowed to make that joke in the same way that someone wears a football shirt that shows everyone exactly who he is. It also has connotations with Count Dankula's Pug video.
It seems that the Home Secretary may be in line with what people here desire but not what the public desires. The public wants free speech abolished for absolute safety from being offended.
Original Home Secretary tweet: https://nitter.unixfox.eu/SuellaBraverman/status/1664954152781328385
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.