The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89133   Message #1679568
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
26-Feb-06 - 03:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Are all bigots male?
Subject: RE: BS: Are all bigots male?
People who disagree with you or me or anyone else about stuff usually aren't even willing to slightly inconvenience themselves to defend our right to say it. I know this from long experience

The point surely, Little Hawk, isn't whether other people are like that towards us, but whether we are like that to other people.

I'd say myself there are some things noone has a right to say. Whether I disagree with them or not is completely irrelevant - in some cases I might not, but feel a duty to button my lip. But outside of that people do have every right to say what they like, and whether I disagree with them or not is completely irrelevant, and I'd do whatever I could to defend that right.

I'd also draw a distinction between what we say and how we say it.