You are not entitled to your opinion

[ciphergoth]

• You Are Never Entitled to Your Opinion
  
• Sorry, but you are not entitled to your opinion
  
• Why You Are Not Entitled To Your Opinion

You are, I think, entitled to the right to hold and express any opinion without being shut down by the State for doing so; that is where the entitlement ends.

[Poll #1410915]
(edit: removed Harlan Ellison quote, which doesn't really express what I'm getting at here)

Comments

[ludy]

Ok i still haven't properly looked at the links due to a lack of spoons but in an ideal world i'm enough of a hippy to want to have this discussion with the people who say it! But mostly i'm not going to because it useing the phrase is usually an alarm bell that the speaker is a nutjob (as a person with mental health problems myself i did try to think of an lterntive wording for nutjob but nothing else seems to fit quite so well!)

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

i did try to think of an lterntive wording for nutjob but nothing else seems to fit quite so well - Daily Mail reader?

[ludy]

:)

So yes i woundn't entirely want to discourage poeple from saying it because it's a useful marker of situations where this stuff needs more discussion