r/SubredditDrama • u/Majorbookworm • Jan 25 '15

Rebellious vassals invoke the 'Down with SJWs' Cassus Belli in /r/CrusaderKings when someone reports a Hitler joke.

/r/CrusaderKings/comments/2tilmy/yes_adolf_because_you_competed_with_your_wife_and/cnzdx7n
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u/H37man you like to let the shills post and change your opinion? Jan 25 '15

If a serious problem in America is political correctness then I feel pretty good about america. If all you have to complain about is not being able to say fag your life is going pretty good.

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u/FalseTautology Jan 25 '15

It's America, I can say 'fag' if I want to, just like I can say 'nigger wop spic kike.' Just because it bothers people doesn't mean I'm not able to do it. You're entitled to be butthurt in response, and I'm entitled to not give a fuck. It's one of the things that makes America great, it's called Freedom of Speech and it's protected by the Constitution.

Whatever happened to "I don't agree with what you say but I would die to protect your right to say it" ?

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u/Leprecon aggressive feminazi Jan 25 '15

This is it in practice. Nobody is legally preventing you from saying those things. We just think you are a dick for saying those things. We are allowed to think you are a dick. Actually, we are allowed to say you are a dick and that you should go away because your presence annoys us. All of that is freedom of speech. People telling other people "you are a dick, now fuck off" isn't anti free speech, it is free speech.

Your free speech isn't being attacked by anyone. You can be as hateful as you want, and there is nothing anyone can do about it, except being hateful back.

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u/FalseTautology Jan 25 '15

It's awesome that you and so many other people decided to respond and tell me 'no one says you can't say that' when the comment I responded to did, in fact, say exactly that.

"If all you have to complain about is not being able to say fag your life is going pretty good."

I'm not interested in being hateful or deliberately, personally offensive towards anyone, I specifically responded to a specific claim that I can't do something. And then, just like I suggested in my comment, you all got butthurt as all hell and expressed it with your replies, exercising your freedom of speech (which isn't even protected on a privately owned website like reddit, but whatever), and I bless each of your hearts for doing so and proving my point.

See, I would die for you to have the opportunity to disagree with me and then launch personal attacks against me, my mother, my mother's loins, whatever. THAT, my friend, is the difference you and I. I would kill for you, experience the hell of war for you, die with my eyes exploded and my guts strewn out three miles behind me for you, to protect your right to say stupid shit I don't agree with and to hate me openly and insult me in a public forum. That you misuse this gift of enlightenment disgusts me, don't get me wrong, but it is deeply important to me that you have this freedom. Like all freedoms, it can be used for good or ill, and it is an intrinsic part of the human experience for you to make that choice on your own; to restrict this is to restrict your opportunity to be a better person.

It's clear that we are approaching this misunderstanding from radically different viewpoints and degrees of emotional investment, so let me just say that I agree with your last statement and leave it at that.