free speech versus "hate speech": EU Parliament edition | Eastern North Carolina Now

"Hate speech" is an Orwellian term used by totalitarians who hate FREE speech, but that term is now being used to try to censor conservative members of the European parliament. The left has filed complaints against three conservative members for their political comments that the left deems "hate speech" and demands penalties for it.  All are for comments made in debate on the floor of the parliament.

An MEP of Forza Italia, the traditional conservative party in Italy led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlosconi had a complaint filed against her for making reference to a Muslim "honor killing" that happened in Italy of a young woman who refused an arranged marriage.  Mentioning that incident was deemed "hate speech".

An MEP of the Danish Peoples Party, a populist / nationalist anti-immigration party had a complaint filed against him for citing official statistics on migrants and sex crimes.  He denounced the move as an attempt to censor discussion of the problem of migrants and crime.  Denmark's Social Democatic Justice Minister confirmed the statistics cited were accurate.

An MEP from Romania's National Christian Democratic Party has a complaint filed against him for stating in debate that "civilized society needs to put female safety over and above that of dangerous gender ideology."

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/hate-speech-at-the-eu-parliament/

Democracy in Europe, even among its elected officials seems to be on thin ice with these challenges to freedom of speech of elected officials in their parliamentary debate.

As George Orwell wrote. "freedom of speech is your right to say what I don't want to hear".


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( May 15th, 2023 @ 7:14 pm )
 
As George Orwell wrote, "There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language". That is why the Orwellian Newspeak of the far left needs to be countered.
( May 15th, 2023 @ 2:42 pm )
 
The UK's National Health Service, not exactly a bastion of conservatism, recently recommended their doctors NOT use or even recommend new pronouns or new names for gender confused children. Using those pronouns slows the recovery that most children experience as they naturally grow out of gender confusion. It that context, it is a big enough doncern that the NHS put it out in a recommendation to their doctors. Beaufort County seems to be contracting in the exact opposite direction.
Big Bob said:
( May 15th, 2023 @ 10:27 am )
 
Fighting over pronouns. Now there is a good use of your time!
( May 15th, 2023 @ 6:41 am )
 
The pronoun issues in the United State have already found their way into Beaufort County Health Department contracts.

We need to fight back.



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