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I get that you are inferring that the idea came from me. But if you had taken a few extra moments to read the post to which I was replying, you would see that I was sardonically summarising the proposal from @Nick Carter icp To be clear, I am not the one calling for the public identification of those who think differently from myself. So please direct your outrage towards him.
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I suggest that you read the article. It's not a BBC suggestion but comes from the TUC. A murdoch muck spreader has published a disingenuous article to whip up the perma angry into a rage against the BBC when the BBC is not a party in the story. As this thread makes clear, they are very effective at riling the willingly gullible.
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Imminent means about to happen. You don't know that is the case, even though you inserted an 'if' afterwards, unconcerned as you appear to be with consistency. To clarify for you: a third party group made a proposal; a sector of the BBC employees said "we don't like that idea". End of story. As for the BBC, they may or may not have responded but article doesn't make that clear because it isn't interested in accurately representing the BBC stance; it just wants to further the murdoch agenda and stir up more angry old men to rail against it.
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The UN is clearly not perfect, but its very basis as an intended means of countries collectively formulating a consensus means that it will inevitably be influenced by the prevailing attitudes of the majority of its constituent members and this leads it open to bias. I don't know the form that reform should take, but I believe that its better to talk than not. Of course, if the criticisms of Israel were baseless then there would definitely be cause of alarm, but if your defence is that the other bad guys get less grief than us bad guys, then its still not a great look.
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There are undoubtedly member states of the UN which are anti Israeli; some of that enmity may be borne of anti Semitism, but history suggests that Islam and Judaism rubbed along together rather well until the mid 20th century, so does today's anti Israel sentiment come from innate anti semitism or from outrage at the behaviour of the state of Israel over the past decades?
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The demonisation of any institution or individual who dares to criticise the state of Israel as anti Jewish or anti semitic has become as tiresome as it is predictable.
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Oh, look at that - Shock Polemicist Hack in Lying for Clicks Scandal... Allison in Blunderland (again) "as the Eye has noted in recent years, Pearson has a tendency to rely on Trumpish "alternative facts" for her Telegraph columns, preferring anecdotal accounts from her correspondents and Twitter followers to anything scrupulously sourced."
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The Decline of Free Speech: How the UK Became a Third-Class Nation
RuamRudy replied to Social Media's topic in World News
What utter nonsense; of course you can. It's has been happening for centuries and is prefectly legal. People often stand outside courts during high profile cases and shout slogans, hold placards and generally try to get their message across to whomever will listen. That's called freedom of speech. You know, the very crux of this thread. -
The Decline of Free Speech: How the UK Became a Third-Class Nation
RuamRudy replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Are you suggesting that knowledge of the law should be restricted to specific individuals? I don't think they were trying to influence the judge, but I am intrigued that you think it's illegal for someone to define the law. Can you highlight what law makes it illegal to make it public knowledge that a point of law exists? That sounds very kafkaesque, like something from a Joseph Heller novel.