why the double standard Regarding Mr Gordon Lyons

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 Northern Ireland Assembly minister Gordon Lyons is the current subject of Cancel Culture in Northern Ireland having to bow down and apologize over a light heartened gesture .

If this madness continues  Some day soon expect a law to be passed mandating that comedians must submit all jokes in advance to a censorship body so that it could be established that no one anywhere would be offended 

could you imagine Mr Lyons in the future  being introduced to Royalty , for example the duchess of Cambridge and saying Your Royal Highness, I would dearly love to express how radiantly beautiful you are, but if i did the media in northern Ireland would cancel me, crucify me, for daring to pass comment on how beautiful a woman looks,  

what a sad state of affairs .

 yet on a sunny July afternoon, in the presence of several PSNI officers and passers by, a religious bigot*,  stands just off the main Lisburn Road in Belfast, on Elmwood Avenue . armed with a microphone and two amplified raised speakers.  this man refers to  a well loved christian meetinghouse and church that has served the people of Belfast for over a century,  he calls it  [ A Synagogue.... ]  and he is not finished not just a synagogue,  think before i say what he said and think how antisemitic this sounds to be broadcast in Belfast in broad day light .  

he calls this Christian Meetinghouse  A Synagogue of SATAN.

 and yet no-one bats an eyelid.  no press or media uproar, no-one bats an eyelid.


why the double standard 

 

a religious bigot offends a whole religious denomination ,...... not a mention 

an assembly minister offends a few women, who possibly got out of bed that morning wondering who was going to offend them that day,  .....wall-to-wall media coverage 

 

why the double standard  ?


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*Bigot definition, [not wishing to offend}

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bigot
/ˈbɪɡət/
noun
noun: bigot; plural noun: bigots

    a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.
    "don't let a few small-minded bigots destroy the good image of the city"
    h
    Similar:
    prejudiced person

sectarian
chauvinist
partisan
dogmatist
racist
racialist
sexist

    homophobe

Origin
late 16th century (denoting a superstitious religious hypocrite): from French, of unknown origin.


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