Comment by jrimbault
9 years ago
>This is a dangerous thing to say publicly!
It doesn't cost me much, apart from internet points. And really the ideas of sharing, equal laws, global humanism and opposition to the centralization/concentration of capital genuinely seem good to me. And I'm not from the US, having those opinions seems quite mild to me.
But yeah, I've made several political comments on HN these past few years, and the amount of votes (in both directions) seem to vary wildly according to what countries are awake, generally more downvotes when the US are awake.
You missed my point. I was saying that if a red scare happens again, you could be persecuted for having written that comment. I admit it's a bit implausible. But not completely so, when you consider US history and the declining respect for freedom of expression.
Yep I missed that.
In that case I'll just hope I've inherited something from my grandmother (who was a resistant during WW2). ^^
> declining respect for freedom of expression
... as opposed to the glory days of... when? A few decades ago, when blacks could say whatever they wanted, as long as they said it at the back of the bus?
... or was it when women's opinions weren't taken seriously at all, not when men were speaking?
... or was it more recently, with Bush's 'Free Speech Zones'?
When was peak free speech in the US?
The US is much more polarized now than in previous decades. Look at these graphs: http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarizatio... The free speech zones you complain about have increased, not decreased: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
Sure a century ago minorities had less freedom. That's a great argument to increase the freedom of minorities, not decrease freedom for everyone. Is that really your argument? That black people had less free speech in the past, so we should get rid of free speech now?
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