Har vi rätt att förolämpa andra människor, även om vi kallar det skämt? Hans Teeuwen menar att vi måste kunna förlöjliga maktstrukturer för om vi inte kan göra det finns det ingen yttrandefrihet och vi är på ett slutande plan.
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus
| Lever vi i ett samhälle där vi är tillåtna att säga vår mening kan inte åsikter förbjudas, då är det inte ett fritt samhälle (åtminstone i ordets bemärkelse).. En åsikt kan vara förolämpande. Absolut. Vi blir dagligen både upplyfta och irriterad av olika människors åsikter. Fast i ett fritt samhälle måste idéer och åsikter släppas fram i ljuset för att kunna undersökas, hur dåliga de än kan tyckas vara. För det är i lampans sken som åsikten / idén kan betraktas och människan välja om det ligger någon fakta och bevis eller vad som verkar vara ett bättre argument till påståendet. Sanningsenliga idéer kan ju som bekant vara till en väldig hjälp till att tolka omvärlden. Samtidigt måste vi utveckla en sköld för att hantera obekväma och irriterande saker (lögner som vi kanske upplever dem). ”Toughen up” helt enkelt. Kanske inte vara så känsliga och lättstötta? Kränkt och allt som är på modet nuförtiden. ”Safe spaces”.. Det går faktiskt att bestämma själv hur man ska reagera på given stimuli. Lära sig ta kontroll av den primitiva lättstötta delen av våra hjärnor. |
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” - Noam Chomsky
“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.” - Stefan Molyneux
Nu till det som detta inlägg egentligen var upphov till:
Hittade ett klipp där 3st. religiösa kvinnor (vet inte deras namn) intervjuar den nederländska komikern Hans Teeuwen. De stör sig på att han förorlämpar (främst religiösa människor).
Orginalintervjun är på Holländska och sen översatt till engelska.
Religious women: Why do you insult so much?
Hans: - I don’t insult a lot at all, I make jokes.
Religious women: You insult many religions too, why?
Hans:- Well like I said, because I think it’s funny. Because anything that has a status has a kind of power, and power always corrupts. It must be allowed for it to be subjected to ridicule. When that is not possible anymore, you get nasty situations, a dictatorship or something. That’s why ridicule is so important.
Religious women: Do you want to achieve something by insulting?
Hans: - No, I want to make people laugh.
Religious women: So you are not trying to achieve a certain goal? When you insult a Christian for example.
Hans: - A goal? No I look at the world and I see a lot of things. Some things I find extremely funny or silly and that is what I make my shows about.
Religious women: You are repeating the same thing over and over, can we be serious for a minute?
Hans: - I am serious can’t you see?
Religious women: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, I am sure you will agree with her, called for the right to insult one year ago. Do you agree with that?
Hans: - Yes I agree one should have that right.
Religious women: But that is not the same as the right to free speech.
Hans: - Well, an opinion can be insulting, you see? So it might be that when I give my opionion on something, this could be insulting to someone else. Furtermore, an insult is to some people a truth they are rather not confronted with. And this could mean that we can’t talk about this or that because someone might be offended.
Religious women: So are you saying you insult knowingly or unknowingly?
Hans:- Well, when I make shows or a song like that, my objective is to make a good song, something people can laugh about. And an insult can be very funny too.
Religious women: Where do you draw the line? What is your limit?
Hans: - The line should be drawn at violence.
Religious women: So it’s okay to get people boiling from anger and then claim that as your limit?
Hans:- Making people angry? Don’t they choose to be angry?
Religious women: You insult a lot of people, this might be frustrating to many.
Hans: - Look, it’s as if you claim sensitivity and feeling insulted is a privilege for the religious only. Do you think that when I put on the TV, I don’t see things that annoy me? That I don’t feel insulted now and then? But one develops a shield to deal with these things. That is what you do in a free society, because you are inevitably confronted with things you don’t like. The religious are very bad at this because they tend to believe they have a monopoly on the truth. They are eager to say: “this is allowed and this is not allowed”.
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Religious women: Isn’t it more civilized when we simply don’t insult each other?
Hans: - That’s true, and the night is still young. But I don’t simply insult, I make jokes. And sometimes jokes can be about sensitive or controversial subjects. These kinds of jokes are exciting, that is where tension is found, and as a comedian that’s what you work with. Otherwise you might as well get rid of comedy or satire altogether.
Vad tycker du? Finns det saker som inte bör / kan ventileras i ett fritt samhälle?
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“It all starts with suppression of a few freedoms and before you know it, you can't speak with out permission from the authorities. And then finally you wake up and you know what? It is too late.” - Allan Amanyire
“Criminalizing offensive speech is a far greater and essential danger to freedom than terrorism is. Anybody who wants to criminalize speech that they find offensive differs from the terrorists only in degree, not in kind.” - Andy Levy
