Citations:freeze peach
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Noun: "(humorous or sarcastic) free speech"
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- 2010 March 25, Michel Boucher, “Re: WAY OT Coulter's Ottawa speech cancelled”, in rec.food.cooking[4] (Usenet):
- I'm sorry, Canada is not the US, thank the gods. Our charter was developed recently and was crafted to avoid the pitfalls that have plagued your country for over 200 years, the bare arms provisions and the freeze peach stuff.
- 2012 January 2, wiki trix [username], “Re: Louisiana: ULL professor sues for 'discrimination'”, in talk.origins[6] (Usenet):
- As much as I tend to criticize the good old USA, I have to say that laws like that as well as certain laws related to freeze peach in Europe, I have to say that we are still the best in terms of individual civil liberties.
- 2015, Joseph M. Reagle, Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web, The MIT Press (2015), →ISBN, page 102, published 1 May 2015:
- Amusingly, "freedom of speech" is so frequently invoked in defense of offensive and harassing speech that it is now popularly parodied by the exclamation "FREEZE PEACH!" This phrase is used to describe "whiny, entitled behavior" from those "misogynists who think that FREEZE PEACH! means their right to pester women in any way they choose or use any kind of misogynist language they see fit is sacrosanct."
- 2015 May 23, calhorn [username], “[analytic] Re: Russell Joke”, in fa.analytic-philosophy[7] (Usenet):
- The libertarians around here absolutely loved the Hebdo thing. Made them seem, you know, right all along or something. But societies need many things to function decently. And if the importance of one item like freeze peach gets exaggerated, it's likely tougher to bring about the others, and you end up with a really shitty place precisely because of freeze peach absolutism.
- 2015, Eleanor Prescott, "Yes: Censorship does not inform public debate", first part of two-part article "Should Germaine Greer come to Cardiff?", Gair Rhydd (Cardiff University), Issue 1063, 2 November 2015, page 13:
- Along with others who disagree with the ban for the same reasons, I’ve been lumped in by Melhuish of striving to “debate the validity of trans lives” (uhm, no) belonging to the “freeze peach brigade” and by Payton Quinn of not caring about trans people – ad hominem at its baffling worst.