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Originally Posted by nhgunnut
Being old enough to remember when protesting meant and we accepted the risks anyway. I have no respect for these self indulgent whiners
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I can't comment on what happened years ago but at my school we get at least once a month some preacher group with giant signs about how we're all going ot hell, especially the gays, and come to our "freedom of speech zone". Well what usually happens is some students who must have retard 101 classes to be able to have the time to argue with some random idiot start screaming at them.
Which is no big deal except they'll scream "you have no right to preach hate speech". They even quoted a student saying "you have a right to free speech but not hate speech" in our school newspaper. Which translates to you have a right to say what you want as long as I agree with it or it doesn't offend me.
Despite the idiocy of the preachers, they never ever tell others they don't have a right to do what they do. They are just warning of what they feel are the consequences of their actions.
What I'm getting at is I'm curious if the protesters of before (and I'd even say before the 20th century) had more respect for others.