Once upon a time, racists used to tell blacks that they should not take racist talk too seriously

[fpb]

And the typical reaction of a Jew-basher to a Jew protesting against Jew-bashing is "Don't lay that PC crap on me" or "you lack a sense of humour".

I just had this same unpleasant experience; not, of course, for the first time, but - and this is what is horrible - at the hands of a supposed friend. I took a screencap, just in case. privatemaladict seems to think that jokes about Catholics being prevented from breeding or hate talk about the Church amounts to protected speech, and that I should not have pointed out that such talk is bigoted and intolerant. Then she locked the post against me: the usual reaction of people who have no arguments.

This has been a long friendship as Internet friendships go, and I wish it did not have to end like this. But I will take that kind of shit from nobody. I do not accept it about Jews, I do not accept about blacks or Chinese, I do not even accept about Muslims (although I do not like Islam), AND I DO NOT SEE WHY ON EARTH I SHOULD BE EXPECTED TO TOLERATE IT WHEN IT IS AIMED AT ME.

Comments

[blue-sky-day.livejournal.com]

Nevermind that. Neither of you are Americans, and I haven't the faintest idea what the laws in Australia are.

[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

As an Australian, as far as I know, our common law protects free speech, but we have a lot of statutes in all the states and territories banning hate speech. Practically, this can create issues.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I was not using the expression in its legal sense. The protection in question was that afforded by the blog owner to her despicable friends in their detestable behaviour, which I was not supposed to criticize. IN other words, I am speaking of moral cowardice and brutal double standards.