will..IF you guys wake up
foxey goes into hospital tomorrow
she will haunt you NOT IN PERSON;BY YOUR SILLY WORDS

Otb,

If it was "mild satire" I'd laugh...the trouble is that it's base, crass, not funny, not particularly clever or creative, overly offensive and just plain rubbish ..etc, etc...

But I don't really care - and I can see that the usual suspects here are cheering the sloganistic garbage on for all their worth.

Anyway, I'm going back to twitter for the rest of the evening - you guys are boring...

(Is that cheering I can hear?)

Foxy,

"Freedom of expression is a cornerstone of a healthy
democracy. Yet when we conceive of this freedom as
a right without a corresponding responsibility
requiring vigilance and hard work - freedom of expression
can be deployed in a way that is anti-democratic
and unconscionable."

What a load of bollocks. I have heard the same double speak from China, Russia and pretty much every tyranny seeking to justify censorship.

Laws against free speech need to be for a strong reason such as child pornography or inciting violent. Because some puritan is offended is not enough.

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<< If it was "mild satire" I'd laugh...the trouble is that it's base, crass, not funny, not particularly clever or creative, overly offensive and just plain rubbish ..etc, etc... >>

Poirot, you said that you haven’t actually seen any of these campervans for yourself, over there in the west. Well, here in north Queensland they are very common. The slogans range from quite funny and witty to bland and rather unintelligent, and only occasionally into territory that I would think is dodgy.

When you put this into context by way of considering the nature of a lot of advertising on billboards, busses, in newspapers, online, etc… and graffiti…. and the nature of a lot of conversation amongst children, adolescents, and adults, it all surely pales almost into insignificance.

<< But I don't really care >>

Really?

Your views as expressed on this thread would indicate otherwise, wouldn’t they?

I think we should also not just automatically seek to ban something that we find offensive. There are afterall all manner of offensive things out there, which we encounter all the time. Most of them just cannot be stopped. They are things we just have to live with. So, seeking to ban what amounts to one tiny element of offensiveness in amongst a great plethora of offensive stuff is pretty meaningless.

Ludwig is correct in what he says. The censorship isn't just about a bit of uncultivated graffiti on a van, it is aimed at creating and reinforcing restrictive boundaries on the cultural, intellectual and political lives of all members of the community and regardless of age, although protection of minors is one of the excuses where challenged.

It is the youth who patronise Wicked and enjoy the satire as faor comment who are the targets of the censoring reptilian radical fembots and authoritarian 'Progressives' (well, they don't call themselves the 'wolves in sheep's clothing' for nothing!).

If anyone wants to see the feminists' political correct wowerism at work, take a cruise through the library of your local State primary and secondary schools, where Eighties feminist dinosaur school ma'm principals, librarians and interfering parents have been active. What about the playground rules where 'violent' boys games such as Red Rover, enjoyed by generations of boys and girls, have been banned? The headmistress of the State primary school in my locale banned 'Boy Scout' games(?!) and Red Rover was one of them. Unfortunately the Education Department is already top heavy in its central administration and can't find a non-teaching, nil child contact job for her. The kicks upstairs to principal were supposed to remove her from teaching. Teachers reading this will recognise the tactic, which is used too often in lieu of other remedies that are available in private schools.

Political correctness has resulted in a culture where it is always preferable to pull the blanket up to conceal difficult and controversial subjects, than to acknowledge and discuss them. Worse, political correctness bestows immediate, enthusiastic and over-generous accolades on anything no matter how minor, that the prevailing PC approves of. The gay sexuality of celebrities is a common example.