This is disturbing. The rights to freedom of expression and assembly are not dependent on the popularity of the ideas or of the group... Or whether the prime minister agrees with them...
Freedom to say only what's popular and government-approved is no freedom at all.
Freedom to say only what's popular and government-approved is no freedom at all.
https://twitter.com/CivilGe/status/1414496169733107712
More on the crisis in Georgia:
https://twitter.com/Giorgi_Gogia/status/1414544025009410049
Democracy is not simply, "whatever the majority says, goes".
Disagree?
➡️ Imagine you're in a room with 9 other people, and 6 of them vote to throw you out the window.
6 out of 10: a majority. So, you're ready to fall to your death?
No, something's not right. You know it.
Disagree?
➡️ Imagine you're in a room with 9 other people, and 6 of them vote to throw you out the window.
6 out of 10: a majority. So, you're ready to fall to your death?
No, something's not right. You know it.
Democracy is meaningless without respect for human rights.
The situations described above are what’s sometimes called, “a tyranny of the majority”. That’s not democracy. That’s not freedom.
The situations described above are what’s sometimes called, “a tyranny of the majority”. That’s not democracy. That’s not freedom.
In a democracy, some things are more important than voting, more important than what the majority want.
Those things are called fundamental freedoms, or human rights, and no vote can take them away.
Those things are called fundamental freedoms, or human rights, and no vote can take them away.
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