Freedom of speech ?
In our zoom chat we discussed this current trend with identity politics and blanket hating and boxing in people for an opinion. These days saying ‘I don’t hate trump’ or ‘let’s up our vitamins to fight coronavirus’ or ‘could 5g be a problem?’ and you will be immediately typecast as things such as sexist, crazy, a conspiracy theorist, a mysoginist, white privelage, racist, evil etc etc and blocked or silenced, if not personally attacked for something totally off topic on the way out! Sadly even fb and bigger platforms are now banning people for an opinion that triggers some people such as David Icke beIng banned for having a different opinion on coronavirus. Evolving our triggers and emotional reactions would be far more beneficial than blocking freedom of speech and not enabling real discussion on topics and shared common ground to be found. Ultimately we all probably want the same things in life and open discussion without emotional reactions and immediately hating someone for thinking differently to you but being open to listen and engage without reaction would solve many of our current world issues. We are so busy fighting and arguing instead of spending time building together and really changing the world. The fact we are allowing people to be silenced and their platforms removed just because they have an opinIon some people don’t like to me is pretty scary.
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Highly rEsteemed!