> I don’t know, arresting people for hate speech for writing the letter “N” on social media or being arrested for saying “I love bacon”
I can't believe you're saying this with a straight face. I really wonder how it feels living in a complete fantasy and constantly whining about made-up stuff. Truly, deeply pathetic. Grow. the. fuck. up.
I could foresee you linking to conservative rags or social media posts. Sorry, I don't let (most probably false) anecdotal "evidence" dictate my politics, unlike you.
My point still stands btw, nothing from the left equates one one thousandths of what the right is currently doing. Sending the boots to blue cities. Defunding blue states. Silencing blue voices.
But it seems like you don't care about material reality, so I'll stop wasting both our times and leave you to your sad, sad fantasy.
Instead of being obtuse, just because left wing media is not reporting it doesn’t make it untrue maybe we can all challenge our assumptions that we’re being fed what we want to believe?
Here’s the ground news article, it includes a fact check and a statement that its not been picked up by left wing media: https://ground.news/article/uk-coppers-arrest-man-for-saying...
I think there's a reason why none of these stories are being reported by trustworthy sources. The fact that you're getting all this from social media sounds to me like their manipulation is working on you.
Yes, possibly.
Another alternative could be similar to what happened in the US with Iryna Zarutska: whereby because it might inflame racial tensions and divisions it is intentionally downplayed.
One can make the argument that 30,000 people a year being charged with hate speech since Labour took government could be related to Russian interference online, but Russia can’t make our police officers arrest people for saying “I love bacon”, an objectively harmless statement. It wasn’t as if it was threatening - it was just unkind.
What exactly do you think happened in the US with Iryna Zarutska? I didn't get the sense that it was "intentionally downplayed because it might inflame racial tensions and divisions."
On the contrary, what I saw was that it was intentionally played up in order to inflame racial tensions and divisions.
There are over 7,150 deaths caused by handguns in the US each year. There are an additional 5,295 deaths caused by other firearms. There are 1,560 deaths caused by knives. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in...
Why was this instance newsworthy?
Hello.
Where have you been?
Man Arrested for saying “I love bacon” at a construction site: https://x.com/tpostmillennial/status/1958224670093709319?s=4...
Police showing up to confiscate young girls phone for online speech: https://youtu.be/lVP-ysIad0I?si=g74BBHd-s1PVlu-g
The “N” letter one is hard to find due to it being a hard pattern to search unfortunately.
Edit: found it; https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPB4bmxDtNV/ or https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=591735277262669&vanity=ForTr...
(for what its worth I’m actually dubious of the truth pertaining to the last one).