Twitter, hate speech and ‘checking your thinking’. We need to reverse our priorities.
The death of the much admired Caroline Flack caused shock waves that were personal as well as public. Whenever anyone tragically takes their own life, it has the effect of spreading guilt and shock around like a cosmic low pressure system. Suicide, tragically, always has that effect. Continue reading “Twitter, hate speech and ‘checking your thinking’. We need to reverse our priorities.”
The confusion & complexity of racism as thought-crime.
As thought crimes go, racism is right up there as the worst.There is no way back if you are called a racist. But trying to stop other people being racist may be creating more harm than good.
Laurence Fox, the actor was invited on Question time recently and what he said created a storm of excitement.
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