I've been wanting to make a post about the Iranian Revolution, the Twitter Revolution, Green Revolution, whatever you wish to call it for a while now. I know I reposted information about it and then left it at that. I keep wanting to post about it, because it's important. But it's also because it's important that I don't want to make a post. I don't feel like my words are enough, even though I'm fortunate enough to have the right to say them. Even if I say something that may be wrong, either an opinion that wasn't all thought out or a piece of information that may be incorrect, I still have the right to say it. And no-one likes to say the wrong thing, and especially not when it's important. So, that's why when important things come up and someone makes something repostable, I'll repost and not add my own words. I feel safer reposting someone else's words and trusting that they're thought out and that their words would be better phrased than mine, and somehow they'll be more 'right'. Which rather defeats the point of free speech doesn't it? Free speech doesn't mean a whole lot if you don't make use of it. I wonder if I'm insulting the people whose lives are at risk and they speak up anyway, by me being too scared to say anything because I might not say the 'right' thing.
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