Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by lesquivemeau 1147 days ago
I'm not sure i get your point.

> Blacks can't sing about how that makes them feel. So not all people are equally allowed to express their artistic vision or their feelings...

Okay, freedom of speech is (de jure) universal, and should be (de facto) universal, i think we can agree on that.

> so the ask is for others to tone it down as a hoped for step in the right direction

I don't think asking people to not express themselves would be a step in the right direction. Isn't that the opposite of freedom of expression ?

1 comments

My very first sentence is "This is probably not even the right debate to be having." And then I tried to describe why it seems to be happening.

I don't know what you are missing that you think I'm arguing for censorship.