Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensi... - Mick Hume
Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensi... - Mick Hume Concise and Abridged EditionDo we really have the right to say the 'wrong' thing? Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger…
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Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensi... - Mick Hume
Concise and Abridged EditionDo we really have the right to say the 'wrong' thing? Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger warnings is absurd' GuardianIn a fierce defence of free speech - in all its forms - Mick Hume's blistering polemic exposes the new threats facing us today in the historic fight for freedom of expression. 'I strongly recommend this book.
But it wasn't long before many were arguing that the massacres showed the need to restrict the right to be offensive. In 2015, the cold-blooded attacks in Paris on the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists united the free-thinking world in proclaiming 'Je suis Charlie'. Meanwhile sensitive students are sheltered from potentially offensive material and Twitter vigilantes police those expressing the 'wrong' opinion.
But the basic right being suppressed - to be offensive, despite the problems it creates - is