Whatever happened to free speech？
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Summary
Have you ever wondered what has happened to free speech in our society? Have you ever been shocked to learn that not everybody thinks exactly like you do? Have you ve ever been offended by the fact that others don't think like you or agree with your opinions? Have someone disagreed with you and you wanted them to lose their job, their platform or their platform because of it? What have we become so accustomed to now that we have to punish those who disagree with us because they don't agree with us? What has caused so much of the tension we re seeing right now in society?
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whatever happened to free speech more and more people are saying asking lamenting as they see
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all these stories of individuals being mobbed silenced de-platformed for their opinions it's
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a good question and i think i have something resembling an answer something that i've seen
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increasing more and more over recent years coming to a fever pitch really just this year which is
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that people seem to feel entitled now to get indignant shocked and surprised to learn that not
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everybody thinks exactly like them it is very bizarre i don't know where this has come from
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in the united states in canada you have only us you have two main political parties in canada you
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have three or four and it just stands to reason that there's going to be results in those elections
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where the vote is split not everybody is uniform in it so it should not surprise you that some people
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you know maybe even your neighbors maybe even your family members vote a different way than you do
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maybe they have a slightly different opinion on some of the big issues of the day and and that's just
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how a free society works and you may you may hold your views very strongly very proudly whatever views
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they are on the spectrum on whatever issue okay that's fine but you've you've got to just understand
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as a human being out and about in society that other people are also going to hold their views
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passionately and and informed views still different ones than you but they've just come to different
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conclusions i i know most of you are just nodding saying why are you even bothering covering this
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territory yes we know human beings are diverse they think in very diverse ways but we've increasingly
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seen people i think just be shocked to learn that folks don't think like them don't vote like them and
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that is what has increased and worsened and i think what has caused so much of this tension we're
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seeing right now for years now i've been appearing on tv panels radio panels where there are people
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who think a complete 180 for me and i'm never flabbergasted by it and i think here's the other
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point i never go hmm that person disagrees with me well i have to go and get them and i have to i have to
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find a way to make them lose the things that are important to them their jobs or their platform or what
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have you and punish them for this who thinks like that but more and more people are getting indignant
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to learn people don't think like them and then they want to pile on them and have them lose
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things and make them suffer for it and that is so sad that's where we're at right now and we really
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need to take a step away from that and just realize yeah human beings have all different perspectives
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and that's what happens in a free society because if you don't anymore and if you're not
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able to have those different perspectives well then are you still a free society