Philosophical Vegan Forum

A Shrewsbury folk festival has banned blackface Morris dancers, who perform with black paint on their faces, a centuries old tradition which they claim is "racist", despite them having nothing to do with black peoples and instead dating back to coal mining! This is stupid and absurd!

The PC brigade is going on a big march fighting everything they see because they say it is racist and/or sexist. They did this with Golliwoggs as well, a harmless children's toy but of course the fucking SJWs had to go on an anti-golliwogg crusade because it has a black face! THEY BAN THINGS AND IT GOES COMPLETELY AGAINST FREEDOM OF SPEECH! WELL I LIKE GOLLIWOGGS AND I LIKE BLACKFACED MORRIS DANCERS AND I AM BLACK SO YOU TRY TO CALL ME A RACIST, YOU SICK FUCKS!!

Anything you say or do is now discriminatory in some ways:
You like Blackfaced Morris Dancers? You're a racist!
You like Golliwoggs? You're a racist!
You don't support Hillary? You're a sexist!
You don't think Caitlyn Jenner is a hero? You're transphobic!

You can even get called one of those things for campaigning against them! I was once called a sexist for advocating feminism online because somebody said that by me, a male, stating my views, I am taking that platform away from women! WTF?!?

It seems nowadays, people think that there are only two views you can take, you are either a stupid PC SJW who gets offended by everything, or an Alt-Right Trump Supporter Capitalist. Well, I am neither!! I am a Left-Wing Socialist Feminist and I am sick to death of Political Fucking Correctness and its INFRINGING on FUCKING FREEDOM OF FUCKING SPEECH!!

It's getting pretty oppressive.

When I was younger, I didn't understand why the KKK were allowed to operate; there is a very strong impulse to say, "but it's different, because they're wrong!" that only right people should have the right to free speech... this is a particular ignorance in assuming who is right is so obvious, without the understanding that the question of how we determine who is right is not so clear as it should be.
Protecting the right people against the wrong ones is the whole point of free speech.
I believe there are mechanisms, at least when it comes to easily demonstrable empirical and logical claims (science and reason), but most people are pretty piss poor at that and in the context of a "democracy" where people may vote only on the science they like and otherwise choose pseudoscience that agrees with them, that's pretty dangerous.
There's a long history of oppression by establishment in a majority run society, and government has only made marginal improvements in scientific literacy.