Ricky Gervais on 60 Minutes Makes a Crystal-Clear Case for Free Speech
He put it perfectly: the great thing about freedom of speech is that I can say what I want, and you can say you're offended, and I get to decide whether I care or not.
Because let's be honest, there's nothing you can say that someone, somewhere won't find offensive.
That's why blasphemy laws are so absurd, they're basically trying to protect an all-powerful deity from having its feelings hurt.
At the end of the day, we should be free to criticise any idea.
Just because you're offended doesn't automatically mean you're right.
Spot on, Ricky. Free speech isn't about never upsetting anyone, it's about the right to speak anyway.
16yo Iranian girl Atefeh Sahaaleh publicly hanged by Islamic regime for reporting her rape.
Under Sharia, rape counts as ‘sex outside marriage’—capital crime.
Is Islam a cult?!
A. Yes
B. No.
If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
BREAKING NEWS: Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, 31, has died after being shot at an event in Utah. An appalling assault on free speech and democracy. Charlie always welcomed debate, with anyone. This is disgusting, and heart-breaking.
RIP Charlie. 🙏
CHARLIE KIRK SHOT DEAD AT 31.
A GREAT AMERICAN, IMPORTANT ALLY OF BRITAIN, FUTURE PRESIDENT, HUSBAND AND FATHER.
Patriots are not your enemy.
This man was fighting to save the UK and the West.
God bless America.
God help us all.
We cannot go on like this.
🙏🇺🇸
If a govt *openly admits* that it's not prepared to put its own citizens first, a general election should be immediately triggered.
Keir Starmer has NO RIGHT to stand in front of our nation's flag.
Labour despise this country and they hate the British people even more.
Labour six months in and so far we have:
🔴Unemployment up by 74000
🔴Wages down
🔴Growth 0
🔴Immigration MASSIVELY UP
🔴Inflation UP
🔴spending UP
🔴civil service recruitment UP
🔴energy bills UP MASSIVELY
🔴cost of living UP
VED, IPT, APD, NIC’s UP
money sent to India, Pakistan, Ukraine, China, Uganda,
1 Afghanistan £352m
2 Ukraine £342m
3 Nigeria £110m
4 Somalia £100m
5 Ethiopia £90m
6 Yemen £77m
7 South Sudan £76m
8 Syria £63m
9 Pakistan £58m
10 Bangladesh £55m
Oh and junior doctors got 22% pay rise along with train drivers.
And then the Labour Party saved a few bob stopping the pensioners from receiving
How many corrupt gov are given money and UK has none 🤷♀️
Show me the ‘far-right’ driving into crowds.
Show me the ‘far-right’ blowing up pop concerts.
Show me the far-right’ targeting Christmas markets.
Show me the ‘far-right’ on the MI5’s terror list.
You can’t because the ‘far-right’ isn’t the problem.
Foreign national offenders living in the UK in 2017 = 5,933
Foreign national offenders living in the UK in 2024 = 18,069
Home Office data, just released
My daughter’s school announced yesterday it’s shutting down.
No warning. Just shutting down. 100s of distraught kids.
Why? Labour’s tax hikes on school fees & NI hikes on staff.
A high-quality, nurturing school forced to close because of greedy, arrogant taxation.
Disgusting.
All it does is pile more pressure on overcrowded state schools.
How can ANYONE justify taxing education. Labour are destroying the very foundations of our children’s future.
What an absolute disgrace. @UKLabour
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Girls and women being raped are a test from Allah.
They bring it on themselves if they dress immodestly.
This is the culture and backward thinking we are importing en-mass into the UK.
This 'Islamic scholar' is Dr Zakir Naik