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Fantastic Piece on Newspapers, Offence and Free Speech

ancapailldorcha · 2015-02-20 10:34:04

Absolutely wonderful piece by Frankie Boyle in the Independent on Tuesday. The comments serve only to substantiate the points he makes.…

20-02-2015 10:34am

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Absolutely wonderful piece by Frankie Boyle in the Independent on Tuesday. The comments serve only to substantiate the points he makes.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/if-youre-a-writer-these-days-our-culture-seems-to-say-please-challenge-and-provoke-me-while-i-scream-whenever-i-hear-something-i-dont-like-10052188.html

The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:34

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#2 20-02-2015 10:34am

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Frankie Boyle is a boil on the arse of society.

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#3 20-02-2015 10:41am

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Two wildly differing first posts there lads; I'll go with a neutered meh.

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#4 20-02-2015 10:41am

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It's a good explaination of tl;dr

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#5 20-02-2015 10:48am

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Have things got that bad that the readership of the London Independent no longer know what an Inuit is?

Fcuk free speech, that will always be a red herring, I think that's the real tragedy right there.

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