{"id":91414,"date":"2024-09-10T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=91414"},"modified":"2024-09-09T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T20:16:56","slug":"chilling-effect-with-a-british-accent-no-one-is-now-sure-what-they-are-allowed-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/09\/10\/chilling-effect-with-a-british-accent-no-one-is-now-sure-what-they-are-allowed-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilling effect (with a British accent) – “No one is now sure what they are allowed to say”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spaceman Spiff<\/a> makes a bid to star in one of Gauleiter<\/em> Keir St\u00fcrmer’s big show trials, coming far too soon to a town hall near you:<\/p>\n

In Britain many of us now walk on eggshells.<\/p>\n

The country and its systems are broken. Free speech is being outlawed. Many are frightened to say anything, although it doesn’t stop them noticing and thinking.<\/p>\n

Recent emphasis on invented categories of offence \u2014 misinformation, disinformation and now malinformation \u2014 mean almost anything can come under the purview of the State and its informers, from ill-timed comments to jokes and humorous observations.<\/p>\n

Famously, memes based on simple observation are admissible in Britain’s world-famous show trials, including this one no doubt:1<\/sup><\/p>\n

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It is difficult to know what people are thinking when they endorse the importation of people who want to kill them for their lifestyle choices.<\/p><\/div>\n

Everything must be monitored because less and less can be tolerated by those in positions of authority. Their narratives are failing, and they are panicking. They are getting desperate.<\/p>\n

Noticing is verboten<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of the topics that trigger the strongest response by the British Government are simply unpopular policies that normal people can no longer ignore.<\/p>\n

More accurately, policies that directly affect growing numbers of law-abiding taxpayers who did not vote for them.<\/p>\n

Do not discuss immigration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mass immigration is the supreme example. Britain’s cities are being flooded with “asylum seekers”, most of whom are economic migrants with no right to settle in the country.<\/p>\n

Many are alien peoples from distinct cultures with no connection to Europe and a poor track record of assimilation.<\/p>\n

They are aided by an army of well-funded human rights lawyers who distort laws designed to help the genuinely dispossessed, which most immigrants are not.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to our generosity many privileges are extended to foreigners that are unavailable to natives such as free housing and financial help on the understanding these are used sparingly and temporarily to aid the desperate.<\/p>\n

These myriad of kindnesses did not emerge to serve those who want the benefits of first-world living while dodging the corresponding costs; the development of high-trust social structures, the communal spirit that transcends tribalism, and the selflessness it all requires. These are rare phenomenon much of the world cannot produce or maintain, and they are being squandered in Western nations by the selfish obsessed with demonstrating their own virtue.<\/p>\n

No serious discussion of immigration is tolerated at any level in Britain. However, this does not stop the erosion of goodwill upon which most of their schemes depend. The generosity they abuse is a limited resource and the magnanimity upon which it depends is evaporating quickly.<\/p>\n

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    1. Many are being jailed in Britain for posting memes and related social media content. The judges often go to some lengths to confirm it is not the content of the material they are questioning as they are perfectly legal, but the perceived intent behind the posting itself.<\/p>\n

    This unprecedented legal descent into clairvoyance, hate speech and arrogance is relatively new. It will not age well and tells us more about the decline in competency in the judiciary than anything else. Standards are clearly not what they once were.<\/p>\n

    To put this kind of absurd reasoning on display in irremovable public court records speaks to the level of delusion and arrogance we are now dealing with in Britain. Our social betters are truly lost in a world of their own.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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