To live in the era of liberal governance and to understand it, one must first know that ancient quote, oft attributed to Cicero: “For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law”.
To censor; or not to censor; that is the question.
Psychotherapist Stella O’Malley wrote about being slowly “cancelled” by the Irish media for raising concerns about transgender issues. This week, a senior journalist in the Irish Times has essentially admitted she was right – that the media are “reticent” to cover such issues:
Through a “user-friendly portal”.
Principles matter
If you want to persuade somebody that a law is unjust, it helps when that law also applies to them.
“Fundamentally misguided”
To genuinely incite violence, it is a pre-requisite that you should be in a position of some influence over the people you are inciting.
UCD Students’ Union
Ireland still fails to transpose the provisions related to criminalising the public incitement to violence or hatred
“within a single glorious fortnight this spring came decisive rebuttals of both these global religions”
If this is what it is doing to young people, we would be vastly better off without it.