Quote of the Day
If someone uses that freedom to express a hateful message, if someone else then apologizes to the victim of the hate-speech, and emphasizes that they themselves disagree with the other person and are sorry for what was said, that is not an apology for the existence of freedom of speech. Neither is it a curtailing of anyone’s freedom of speech. It is a use of their freedom of speech to distance themselves from the message of the other person, equally freely expressed, and to express their sympathy with the person who was denigrated and insulted by that freedom of speech.
September 16th, 2012 at 1:07 pm
In hoc signo vinces†
” … denigrated and insulted by that freedom of speech.”
The question is simple what is the author apologising for is it freedom of speech or is it hate-speech?
The premise of this proxy apology is that the freedom of speech was hate-speech and that call makes the proxy apology an apology for the existence of freedom of speech.
Prior condition and the after the fact extortion of (proxy) apology makes a nonsense of equally and freely expressed speech.