A speaker argues that slurs like 'racist' and 'Nazi' have lost their bite, and that free speech constraints come from social pressure, not law. Someone with a platform can discuss immigration and gender without consequence, but an ordinary employee like Janice in Milton Keynes would face workplace cancellation for the same views.
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So they call you racist? Yeah, but I mean, I think anyone calls anyone racist these days, really. I mean, that word is not what it used to be. Words like Nazi, fascist— bracket there— they don't have the same impact, I don't think, as they used to. Those words used to silence people, used to shut people up, used to scare people into not coming out and talking. Because it's all very well and good for me, you know, every single night I can sit there on my platform and steam into these topics, and that is an area where I'm very privileged. For someone like Janice, who works in accounts at a firm in Milton Keynes, if she came out and said some of the things I say about illegal immigration or demographic change, or blokes in women's toilets, or whatever, she might be cancelled from her office.