http://canadianatheist.com/2012/10/08/the-offensive-against-offence/ Athée Canadien Tue, 21 May 2013 21:15:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://canadianatheist.com/2012/10/08/the-offensive-against-offence/#comment-14788 Corwin Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:37:45 +0000 http://canadianatheist.com/?p=9034#comment-14788 This seems insanely draconian, and it’s part of a wider trend in the UK towards criminalising “offensive” speech. Have you been following the legal and quasi-legal tribulations that John Terry, and now Ashley Cole, have been enduring courtesy of the Football Association? The land of the Magna Carta seems to be genuinely trying to institutionalise a right not to be offended, or at least a right not to be offended on certain grounds. Something is clearly rotten in Britain.

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