Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?

Concise and Abridged Edition

Do we really have the right to say the wrong thing?

I strongly recommend this book. Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger warnings is absurd Guardian

In a fierce defence of free speech in all its forms Mick Humes blistering polemic exposes the new threats facing us today in the historic fight for freedom of expression. In 2015, the cold-blooded attacks in Paris on the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists united the free-thinking world in proclaiming Je suis Charlie. But it wasnt long before many were arguing that the massacres showed the need to restrict the right to be offensive. 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 not only acceptable but vital to society. Without a total freedom of expression, other liberties will not be possible.