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On Asshats And Freedom Of Speech

Here’s how freedom of speech works:

If you behave like an asshat, and I respond by:

a) calling you an asshat;

b) expressing my fervent wish that you weren’t an asshat;

c) lamenting the fact that you won’t stop talking like an asshat; and

d) suggesting you take your asshat views elsewhere,

then I am exercising my right to freedom of speech - just as you, by being an asshat, are exercising yours. 

I am not censoring you. I am not attacking your freedom of speech. 

I’m simply using my rights - which are equal to yours - to point out the myriad ways in which you’re abusing those rights by using them in the service of asshattery.

THAT IS ALL.

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  2. flootzavut said: THANK YOU my God so many people do not get that.
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    An important public service announcement.
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  13. razziecat said: Not to mention…you are not the government, and your blog is your blog. You can refuse to let someone use your blog as a way to spew their asshattery all over. If they don’t like it, let ‘em get their own blog.
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    Foz Meadows, everybody, laying down FACTS.
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