Some of us who advocate for (absolute) Freedom of Speech in this "New Gambia" are so sensitive to rejoinders; we act as if we are the Lord's chosen arbiters of truth... you know, the conscious few, and those who disagree with the faults we find or the issues we criticise are the sheeple, and that's BS.
Here's what I think: if you can make an assertion, others too reserve the right to counterassert, how strong yours feels regardless. We all have to enjoy these freedoms: of ideas, choices, beliefs, including the freedom to get angry, to disagree, to call out BS like I did above, etc.
There cannot be any unchallengable authority in this phenomenon, no consensus reality, and so, what someone may consider slurry or an insidious opinion is an opinion, still. In fact, unless, considering our cultural value systems, we agree on a cutoff beyond which freedom of speech becomes nonsense, it's the business of anything goes. So, let's go... ndoti ndoti style!
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