I Abhor What You Are Saying...

[miss_s_b]

... But will defend to the death your right to say it.

This is one of those maxims I unswervingly advocate. It's a founding principle of my moral structure. It's why I detest and decry No Platform stances.

I found it tested to the limit this morning when I heard Peter Hitchens on Start the Week referring to himself as reasonable, along with many other unsupported and unsupportable assertions which went completely unprobed by old Jug Ears Marr.

ARGH KILL STAB HATE!

I am therefore going to make a small amendment. I abhor what you are saying, but will defend to the death your right to say it as long as you are saying it at a reasonable hour when I have had chance to wake up. Otherwise I reserve the right to get into a frothing rage and scream obscenities at the radio for your total, utter vacuous selfish pompous ARSENESS.

Comments

[misfratz.livejournal.com]

Hmm. It's one of those sayings I'd find more credible if I knew any modern liberals who'd even been to prison for defending a cause (I have, for example, known Green Party MPs who've been arrested on demonstrations- not seen that happen with any Lib Dems), let alone died for one. I personally wouldn't die for someone's right to say something stupid/wrong, because I'd rather die for someone's right to say something true, and it seems just as likely for either to be restricted, so I'd rather save the dramatic political rhetoric for times when someone has something worth saying to defend.

OK, having posted this and being redirected a couple of times now to log in to openID, I am also not going to even faff around on the internet for my right to say anything again. I was already logged in to LJ ffs.