01-01-15, 07:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-01-15, 07:51 PM by lew600fazer.)
(01-01-15, 06:50 PM)fazed link Wrote: I tend to agree and in any case it's not illegal to offend people or be rude about people the last time i looked whereas incitements to action are ........as far as I'm concerned thre should never be thought or opinion 'crimes'.......we're all entitled to our own thoughts opinions and prejudices but we should draw the line at incitements to malicious action based on hatred...
Somone else summed it up better than I could when he said 'I detest what you say but I defend to the death your RIGHT to say it'
I remember Ron Atkinson the ex football manager, come pundit uttered what could have been deemed as a racial slur. He thought he was off air and the broadcast had finished so as far as he was concerned it was private comment. That more or less finished his career. It did not matter how many times he said sorry, he even had coloured players defending him saying no way was he a racist made no differance he was finished.
Rio Ferdinand got involved in the row over the John Terry/Aton Ferdinand bust up. Ashley Cole stood up for Terry and Rio called him a choc ice , meaning he was brown on the outside but white in the middle. Rio got fined a few £££££ but he was still able to continue working unlike Atkinson
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