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40 Percent of Millennials Okay With Legally Limiting Offensive Speech

posted by cmn32480 on Monday November 23 2015, @12:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the our-precious-little-snowflakes dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Turns out all of you who thought millennials were fascist little turds were 40% correct.

American Millennials are far more likely than older generations to say the government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive statements about minority groups, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data on free speech and media across the globe.

We asked whether people believe that citizens should be able to make public statements that are offensive to minority groups, or whether the government should be able to prevent people from saying these things. Four-in-ten Millennials say the government should be able to prevent people publicly making statements that are offensive to minority groups, while 58% said such speech is OK.

And this is why you should not be allowed to vote until you're mature enough to consider the consequences of your actions.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 23 2015, @03:20PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday November 23 2015, @03:20PM (#267014) Homepage Journal

    Poor word choice, "retard". Not for SJW reasons, just for inaccuracy.

    I'll cop to being a massive cock about it though. I'm not interested in civility with my enemies. Normally I'm not one to quote Rand but she's spot on with "In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit". I'm not interested in losing less; I'm interested in winning.

    I also have a very low tolerance for foolishness on matters of import. If you think or say something bloody stupid, I will point it out in such a way that others will hopefully not wish to be associated with such a foolish notion. Maybe I'm giving people too much credit for the intellectual honesty to change their position once it's been shown to be untenable though.

    Either way, I'm not going to stop mocking those who I think need or deserve mocking. Shame is a valuable tool that has been used to correct thought and behavior for thousands of years and it is a sword I intend to wield whenever I see it as appropriate. If any of the above makes you think I'm an asshole, so be it. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 23 2015, @05:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 23 2015, @05:09PM (#267055)

    > I'm not interested in losing less; I'm interested in winning.

    You seem content to win the battle and lose the war.