Quote Originally Posted by THE Bruce Dickinson View Post
I am very aware of how free speech works. The difference is the group think. If a celebrity says "I believe abortion is murder" or "I think marriage is only between a man and a woman" they better watch out. However, if you say something along the lines of "I think women should have the right to post birth abortions" you will be revered as woke. The media acts as an attack dog for the left.
This is just plain hilarity and wrong on how people view abortion and where the cancel culture comes from. The media acting as an attack dog for the left is hilarity. Fox News gets the biggest cut of the pie behind locals.

But let's view your two ridiculous scenarios for what they are. Starting with the obvious, "marriage is between a man and a woman." Why is this controversial? Well acting in favor of that statement is a first amendment violation. If you support that statement and act on it then you are spitting on freedom of religion. Remember, your rights end where another's begins. You can't impose your religion to where another's can't begin. That's how that works. And don't think this means that your pastor has to marry them. That's the catch that they are missing. They can't impose their religion on you. So shit ain't bothering you. They're treated equally under law and can get their marriage certificate same as any 2 other human beings. If you prevent that then you are against freedom and you should move to Russia.

As for abortion, the touchiest of topics. Both sides are shit at the argument in my opinion. Pro-choice for not knowing what constitutes a human and deciding arbitrarily based on days. Pro-life for being disingenuous and acting like they actually care about lives. As soon as that baby is going plopped out, they don't give a damn anymore. It simply comes across as a means to control women with those disingenuous motives. The ones who are sexist about it get cancelled. Which are still few and far between. Your post-birth abortion straw man is just pure comedy. Doesn't exist and is an attack to make an argument you don't agree with sound stupid.

But again the issue is simple. If you are militant on either side of that controversial issue, you have the ability to vote with your wallet. If someone else takes the other side of the issue, you have your freedom to no longer support them in any capacity and say why. You have freedom of speech of course. But there is nothing to protect you from the consequence of others hearing your freely said malarkey and causing monetary consequence for you. You do not have the freedom of monetary consequence. That would impose others rights to freedom of speech.

Being scared of that boils down to that you're scared you'll lose money for shit opinions. That's what happens in a democratic economy. If you don't like democracy or freedom then go somewhere else. (This isn't a specific shot at you Bruce. It's directed at idiots who believe their bastion of freedom is perfect and can't understand why anyone would question the holes in our society.)