No Safe Spaces

If you haven’t watched this documentary yet I highly suggest you do. It’s called No Safe Spaces and you can watch it for free on Tubi. It’s essentially about our First Amendment rights and how they are slowly being infringed upon. For those of that aren’t sure what the First Amendment is, that is our right to freedom of speech. In theory everyone is all for freedom of speech right? Kind of. Everyone is absolutely for their own freedom of speech, but not so much everyone else’s. What do I mean by that? I mean everyone is for freedom of speech if they agree with what’s being said, but if they don’t agree with you or if what you’re saying makes them uncomfortable they don’t want your freedom of speech protected. That’s the beauty of freedom of speech. I can say whatever the fuck I want to and as long as I’m not threatening the well-being of anyone then I can say whatever the fuck I please. People are so afraid of being uncomfortable that they would rather have rights stripped away than just ignore what is being said. People have differing opinions and views, but listening to those is how we learn and grow. Growth is uncomfortable. We need to take the time to actually listen and hear people out before we bastardize them and their ideas. I, for one, have grown immensely as a person. My options of things have changed DRAMATICALLY from what they were just a couple short years ago. Why? Because I took the time to listen and learn in an effort to grow. Would you like to hear some controversial opinions I have at this point in my life? If not close out of this right now because you may not like what I have to say. I believe anyone on any kind of public assistance should be drug tested regularly. I believe alcohol sales should cease at midnight. I believe all these tiny little casinos around town should be shut down. I believe abortion should be legal, although I don’t agree with terminating a perfectly healthy baby, but it is your body and that is absolutely your right. I don’t believe there should be advertising for alcohol on TV, we don’t advertise for any nicotine products so why would be advertise for alcohol? I don’t believe PRIDE should be for children. I don’t believe we should be marketing sexuality to children in any way. Let them be children and let them decide who they want to be once their adults. I believe there should be harsher penalties for violent offenders and drug dealers. I believe we need to attempt to better rehabilitate our inmate population as opposed to just punishing them. I believe there should be more support for those reintegrating into society from prison. I believe doctors should push a healthier lifestyle as opposed to pushing medications. I believe all speech should be protected, even the speech that makes people uncomfortable, even the speech that is upsetting, even the speech that hurts feelings. These are some of my beliefs and my opinions. It’s absolutely fine if you don’t like them, but is my right to have them and to speak on them. I will not be silent simply based on weather or not my opinion on things makes you uncomfortable. You may agree with them or may not. Either way that’s fine, if you’d like to discuss I’d love to chat because I enjoy a good debate or even just learning something new. There’s plenty of thing so don’t know enough about to have an opinion on and that’s okay. I just know that once we start putting limitations on some of our rights we slowly begin to lose the freedoms that make this country so great.