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JoeAncelotti said:
binary solo said:
There is no country where speech is absolutely free from constraints. It's just a matter of where you draw the line. In parts of Europe it's illegal to deny the holocaust, and some countries will not allow foreign holocaust deniers to enter the country.

It's the laughable thing about so many people who yell and scream about freedom. They fail to understand that freedom is legitimately constrained in all sorts of ways, and indeed they normally agree with at least some of these constraints, though perhaps don't actually realise they are constraints on freedom.


This is absolutely true. We have a man called Geert Wilders over here in the politics that blames a lot of Islamic people for the terrorist attacks and maroccan people for making the cities unsafe and sometimes he crosses that famous super thin line between freedom of speech and discrimination which often gets him sued but eventually not prosecuted. And I think that's a big topic these days. Where do you put that line? 


The doctrine contained within certain religious manifestos, is ripe with discrimination, call for segregation and champions inequality and shuns freedom. 

If certain forms of discrimination is protected under the guise of religion, why should the religious be allowed to discriminate, but be free from being called into question about the manifesto within the book they follow that actively discriminates?