cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26284554
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 20 February 2025 21:44 GMTAlex Tyrrell, party leader of the Green Party of Quebec, who accompanied Engler to the police station on Thursday, spoke to the Middle East Eye about Engler’s arrest.
“I think it’s a shocking attack on free expression and democratic rights and criticism of Israel in Canada - a country that’s supposed to be a free, democratic society. We’re supposed to speak out about a genocide," Tyrrel told MEE.
I remember killed yesterday when leftists made fun of “freeze preach”
Not so fun when the shoe is on the other foot, is it?
The right wing assholes whining about free speech don’t actually want free speech. You can see that in the campaigns to remove books from school libraries all across the country. All across the world the right are demonstrating time and again how little they actually support free speech.
What they want is the freedom to spew hate speech, which is the only kind of speech that a tolerant and free society should not tolerate. All other forms of speech they will gladly and eagerly suppress unless it agrees with them.
Right wing assholes don’t want free speech, but I do.
That includes extremist views, since the government should not in any way be in business of determining what those are
What are you even talking about?
There are still people who think the government should be in the business of fining and jailing people for things they say
A bunch on nonsense. There maroons think that getting banned from Facebook for making death threats is the same as the government imprisoning you for speaking out against genocide.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Meechan
Not just death threats, but jokes too
