As will he

Playing your assumption game, you and Stirling may both have been mercilessly bullied and on occasion perhaps more in your youth.

But desensitisation, over exposure and resentment does not mean everyone else should simply put up or shut up. Completely nonsensical point of view, but also understandable.

It would be better for society for people to go through life without feeling like people can simply berate each other without feeling bad about it, or being free of punishment or scrutiny. Not sure that’s particularly controversial.

Also - ‘hurty words’ can, and do, cause depression, mental health issues, and suicides. You know this.

It’s never about the issue, it’s always about the ideology and the crowbar

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

You calling Philip Davies thick is proof positive irony abounds.

But thanks for taking time out from your anti semite lauding to post some rubbish

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

I'm sorry but I really have to make the point that there isn't any such thing as stopping people from saying stuff. Hell, you can't even do that in North Korea.

It's always been about what the consequences were. We differ on what the line is and the extent of state and regulatory interference should be.....I refer you to back to Starkey's view.

You set the bar as low as you can....that bar existed in this country for a very long time. It's not some radical idea.

As for you being taken aback somewhat by my defence of offensive speech. I also really have to state that it's not 'freedom of inoffensive speech'....Rather obviously no one needs to protect speech that doesn't offend anybody.

I can remember when Thatcher was in power....the left would say really quite insulting things about her, some of it way out of order.....Did I call for their censor? Nope, very few did. I remember when she died....some berk released a song celebrating her death that hit the charts and made the news, 'ding dong the witch is dead'. Did I call for that to be banned....Nope. Instead I criticised the hell out of it.

When they called for that fat lefty unshaggable comedian Jo Brand to be banned over that poor taste Farage joke about acid....Did I support her being banned....Nope.....Even though some said it encouraged violence against him.

I'm perfectly fine with people criticizing Fox.....However, the moves to censor and calls for banning are just indicative of the significantly less free society Britain is becoming.

It can have your support, but it doesn't have mine.

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On that we can certainly agree, but this comes down to ideals versus reality.

The reality is that on late night TV, controversy makes people watch, and sometimes a line is crossed.

No one died. Perhaps a bit of adversity in youth prepares one far better than being completely protected from nasty things.
Life is going to get you eventually.

Precisely. That's exactly the point. It isn't too much to ask to expect mature discourse in the media without resorting to playground retorts and calling that a solution, don't you think?

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.