Caveat: this video is about five months old. But it’s popping back up on Twitter/X again because things in Ireland have been very tense.
Here’s some background: right before Thanksgiving, a lone 40-something man stabbed a woman and several children in Dublin. Angry Irish citizens rioted, ostensibly about the country’s immigration policies, saying enough was enough.
Rather than addressing the issues of immigration, and the stabbing, Irish politicians have focused on the real problem: free speech.
Censoring it, of course, is for the ‘greater good.’
Ireland’s Green Party Sen. Pauline O’Reilly: “We are restricting freedom but we’re doing it for the common good…Yes you have rights, but they are restricted for the common good.”pic.twitter.com/A1JN1yMyVv
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 27, 2023
If ‘you have rights’ is followed by ‘but’ — you do not have rights.
Ireland senator wants to criminalize speech that causes too much “discomfort” for people. If this were happening in Russia or China or many other nations we would call it totalitarian and threaten economic sanctions. https://t.co/BgzB5aApXC
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) November 27, 2023
Yes, we would.
Freedom IS…
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