Life empire wrote:Blavatskya wrote:
The Blavatskya Intelligence Bureau identified in this topic that the majority of nations that support this resolution and are threatening to leave the WA if it is not passed (which is unlikely to happen), are 90% of nations with low levels of Civil Rights, Political Liberties or both. Really, for that alone we know well why it is important to be against this proposal.
well nations like mine who do have reasonable freedom scores are in support of the repeal because the resolution that the repeal is targetting goes against freedom for example free speech is banned under this resolution
Currently active General Assembly Resolution #603, titled LGBTIQA Inclusiveness in Schools Act, does not prohibit free speech. It prohibits and battles HATE speech. Our delegation stated that hate speech cannot and will never be part of free speech so many times that we began to sound like a broken record, but so does you with that freedom of speech card, ambassador. If your "freedom of speech" feels threatened because you cannot call other people (mainly members of minority and marginalized groups) slurs, insults, discriminate and call for the violence against them then that becomes you problem - you as a person problem. Not to mention that this proposal is actively trying to reduce presence of LGBTQ+ issues in schools. Things such as religion or "its not for kids" are not valid arguments in saying why we shouldn't have LGBTQ+ subjects in schools because we always expose oUr PrEcIoUs kids to straight stuff. If you want to play that LGBTQ+ issues shouldn't be discussed in schools or be protected from hate speech then lift protection for anyone.. give kids battle axes and fight for a dominance then.
Furthermore, freedom of speech as an absolute thing where "you can say everything and no one can do anything about it" does not exist. Even in the most democratic countries you cannot say what you want without consequences. Free speech only applies to opinions and not harmful stereotypes, slurs, insults or call for a violence. If we go by your logic where freedom of speech should be absolute and that no one has a right to shut down your hate speech then by that logic no one should actually be sent to prison for a murder or any crime because why should they go to prison? It would restricts their freedom of movement (which also btw is not absolute). Hate speech is a crime, not some "quirky" extension of the freedom of speech. There is no right for anyone to actively spread hate about a group of people and mask it under a free speech parole. Your words, just like your actions will always have a weight of a consequences, either from the authorities or from the people you try to dehumanize by using hate speech.