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The End of Freedom of Speech.Pdf Human Rights: the decline and (nearly) the end of Freedom of Speech in the West Human Rights is a potentially vast subject including ideas such as equal pay for equal work between the sexes, the freedom to change religion, the right to join associations to defend interests and many other ideas. Above all there is freedom of speech, a fundamental idea of Human Rights and a vital component of Western civilisation. It has been considered vital for about 2500 years with many biblical references to this subject which was also discussed by Greek philosophers in depth. Sadly, freedom of speech is under attack in the West and has mostly disappeared with the notable exception of the USA with its guarantee of the First Amendment of the Constitution despite the woke cancel culture efforts of virtue signallers. When saying that freedom of speech is disappearing, this does not mean that it is impossible to criticise politicians in the West; fortunately, that still exists, but on a whole range of issues, suggesting anything other than that of the established woke orthodoxy is now punished by job losses, social ostracism and in many cases criminal prosecution. Most of the West is now a very long way from the principle that any speech should be allowed except defamation, but that concerns wrong facts not opinions. Exceptions limiting freedom of speech had in fact developed in recent times in various Western countries concerning incitement to violence, defence secrets, copyrights, patents and more controversially so less widely, subjects such as inciting racial hatred, pornography or holocaust denial. Some of these limitations can be argued as justified and absolute freedom of speech is probably not realistic, but as a basic principle it must be defended. Furthermore, Article 19 of the UN Declaration on Human Rights states that “everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.” For various reasons outside the scope of the subject, what the UN says can often be criticised and many countries ignore this Article, but few truly believing in Western civilisation would disagree with it. The problem now is that many Western politicians and media hardly believe in the concept of freedom of speech and the comparison of the situation today with only 10 or 15 years ago is astonishing. Yet it is precisely the West that has the best record over Human Rights where freedom of speech has been used precisely to guarantee those Rights. As a historical example, the West abolished slavery before anyone else since freedom of expression and concepts of equality of treatment of humans meant that is was possible to debate what was wrong and how it should be changed. It is in other civilisations where slavery still exists in much of the world, but is ignored by Western woke. Human Rights violations in the West are insignificant compared to the treatment of women, homosexuals or atheists in certain Islamic societies despite the deafening silence of LBGTQWERTY lobby. The Western woke pays almost no attention to the Chinese government treatment of Muslims, Tibetans, those in forced slave labour camps or with unacceptable views according to the ruling Communist Party. Western cultural Marxists blame all the world’s problems on Western white, heterosexual, middle aged or older men as seen in the hysterical Trump Derangement Syndrome where the former President remains banned from the social media, unlike the Talibans and the Ayatollahs who are allowed to publish their genocidal opinions. The origin of this deplorable situation is essentially the result of a self-hate/guilt philosophy, something not new and often related to mental illnesses. For psychological or psychoanalytical reasons, some people hate themselves, their families, their jobs and by extension, their life and society around. This self-hatred is translated by the view that Western civilisation is to blame for all the world’s problems so in climate where the excessively doubtful cause of this supposed catastrophe is said to be man-made CO2, the fact that most CO2 emanates from China and India and not the West is ignored. With Covid-19, pointing out the Chinese origin of the virus is racist so even stating facts is unacceptable. These concern recent events, but historically, many European ‘intellectuals’ were so filled with self-hate that many used to prefer Stalin’s communism and millions of deaths to Western liberal capitalism even after Stalin was denounced by the Soviet rulers themselves in the 1950s. Others preferred fascism before World War 2 since Mussolini got the trains to run on time and Hitler got autobahns built. In the 1970s some so-called Western thinkers preferred Mao’s ‘Great Leap Forward’ in China leading to between 35 and 100 million deaths depending on the source rather than supposed US and Western imperialism in Korea and Vietnam. Many of the 1930s fascists and communists were at prestigious universities and higher education today is in the forefront of this self-hate/guilt philosophy. Culturally Marxist professors spread their poisonous ideas to young people who are easy to influence and protected from the realities of life. As political and economic Marxism did not succeed, the cultural version aims to destroy Western societal norms: destroying family structures (gender fluidity), rewriting history (removing statues) or using social networks to ‘fight’ climate change or any perceived inequalities related to age, sex, social class, wealth, skin colour, sexual orientation or other theoretical handicap. This is backed up by a cancel culture where those in disagreement are to be silenced, publicly and socially ostracised and lose their jobs. Try to get a research grant for studying climate change if you believe that climate is changing naturally and always has and not because of human created CO2. Try to get a job in a public institution 1 today if you believe the homosexuality is abnormal and transsexuality even more so. This intolerance of opinions exists in most media, private companies, public institutions, universities, charities and now the police and armed forces. In private, many people do not believe in what they say, but feel obliged to publicly express certain views just like in totalitarian regimes. Publicly expressed political correctness to keep rulers happy is not new; historically, what was said to Monarchs and Emperors was what they wanted to hear rather than what those saying actually believed. In the 20th century, this continued in dictatorships where officials in Stalin’s Soviet Union celebrated reaching tractor production objectives when they knew that the figures were untrue. Those expelled from Chinese cities to work in fields and live in remote villages under Mao’s policy announced how happy they were. In Hitler’s Germany, military generals proclaimed how it was essential to use scarce logistics to transport Jews to death camps rather than for troop movements or helping injured soldiers get treatment. If political correctness is not new, the modern Western version started in the 1980s with multiculturalist theory. This suggests since several different cultures exist in a specific society, there is no common or dominant culture and by the 1990s, cultural relativism suggested that all cultures are valid and it is racist to suggest otherwise. This is fundamentally wrong since diversity does not prevent a common and dominant culture which is essential for societal cohesion; to accept all cultures are valid would mean recognising cannibalism or female genital mutilation. However, in the (reasonable) attempt at the time to avoid discrimination and to promote minority inclusion, it was suggested that people should have ‘first’ names not ‘Christian’ names and ‘Happy Christmas’ could become ‘Happy Holidays.’ These relatively unimportant examples might or not be seen as an improvement, but today the debate has gone much further and spread to all aspects of daily life. Language has become artificial and ugly with endless debates about inclusive grammar when speaking and writing. Everything said or written becomes potentially discriminatory; it is an offence to use incorrect gender pronouns when addressing transgenders considering themselves to be of a different gender than their name and appearance suggests. In the name of equality for transsexuals, men are placed in women’s prisons or hospital wards if they consider themselves women and in the UK, a man raped some women prisoners. In sports, men claiming to be women compete in women only events and usually win, but the defeated women concerned are so frightened of transphobia laws that they say nothing or only complain under strict conditions of anonymity. The psychological consequences of being frightened to speak is seen in totalitarian regimes every day. Biblical descriptions of homosexuality as an ‘abomination’ might now be considered as excessive by many, but is quoting biblical texts now to be considered as illegal homophobia? Australian rugby player and fundamentalist Christian Israel Folau was banned from playing in Australia because he considers that “hell awaits” all homosexuals, (with adulterers, fornicators, thieves, atheists, drunks and liars). Like all opinions, the issue is not whether one agrees with these views, but whether they should be allowed to be expressed. In many sports, BLM posters exist and most players ‘bend the knee’ before matches, but suggesting (obviously) that White Lives also Matter is considered racist and someone lost a job in England recently because of saying so. If one considers that children are better with a mother and a father of biologically different sexes and not the same sex nor claiming to be another sex, is this illegal homophobia/transphobia? Since phobias are irrational anxieties and mental illnesses, there are now laws against illnesses, a form of thoughtcrime of which Orwell would have been proud.
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