In a recent episode of the Tucker Carlson Show, Piers Morgan, UK journalist and host of Piers Morgan Uncensored, debated Tucker Carlson on free speech in the United Kingdom.
During one exchange in the interview, which aired on Wednesday, Tucker Carlson dared Piers Morgan to use the word “f*ggot,” a speech crime in the UK.
This comes after 34-year-old Elizabeth Kinney, a mother of four and an aspiring nurse, was assaulted in the UK and sent to the hospital, but because she referred to her attacker as a “fagg*t” in private text messages, Kinney was reported to police and convicted of a hate crime! Kinney pled guilty to “causing to be sent by public communication network an offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing messages,” the Daily Mail reported earlier this month.
“The Crown place this offence in the highest category of its type due to the effect related to sexual orientation and the greater harm because it had moderate impact,” prosecutors argued. Kinney’s lawyer said she was simply “unloading a lot off her chest” after being badly injured and hospitalized” and that the statements “were not being used against a person’s sexuality.”
Still, she was sentenced on enhanced or “uplifted” charges with a 12-month community order, 72 hours of unpaid work, and ten “rehabilitation activity days,” as well as a fine because of the “homophobic content,” the Justice of the Peace said.
“That story tells you everything,” Tucker said of the incident before asking Piers Morgan to say the word she was prosecuted for using in order to prove that free speech still exists in the UK.
But Morgan declined, arguing that he is “allowed to” but chooses not to because people might be “offended.”
In an apparent distraction attempt, Piers eventually humorously pointed to Tucker’s use of the word “chick” to describe a woman, asking, “How dare you be so sexist, comparing women to chicks?” Tucker then shot back, “How about this? Let my life, the way that I actually live and treat people, be the testament to my heart. That’s how I feel.”
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Transcript below:
Carlson: Elizabeth Kinny from Tranmere, have you heard about this? She’s a mother of four. I think she’s a nurse, and she gets beaten up by her boyfriend. He beats her up, she goes to the hospital, and she texts someone, a buddy of hers, a friend of hers, a girlfriend of hers, and describes the man who beat her up and sent her to the hospital as a quote, “f*ggot,” he’s a f*ggot. And she’s arrested and convicted of a hate crime. The guy who beat her up is not arrested or convicted. And then she goes through this whole Kabuki, which is now required, where she prostrates herself before the judge. “I’m sorry. It was not a homophobic rant”— by the way, you’re allowed to be homophobic if you want. In a free country, you can have any view you want. But no, because she used the word f*ggot, she’s arrested and the guy who punched her in the face was not. That story tells you everything.
Morgan: Look, I don’t know that story. If it’s exactly—
Carlson: Daily Mail, baby, okay, pictures of her and everything.
Morgan: Okay, I’m not doubting. I’m just saying I need to look into it. But if that is how you’ve told it, obviously it’s ridiculous.
Carlson: Would you say the word f*ggot on camera?
Morgan: No.
Carlson: Why? You don’t want to get arrested, do you? Oh, because it’s so harmful to people? Is it like gay bashing? What’s wrong with that?
Morgan: Actually, my whole issue with the whole trans debate, for example, is you don’t need to slide into actually saying derogatory stuff about trans people to make the point that women’s rights should be protected. You don’t need to needlessly smear people… Would you use that word?
Carlson: F*ggot? I just did. F*ggot, f*ggot, f*ggot.
Morgan: Okay, but why?
Carlson: And I’m using it because you’re not allowed to, because you’re—
Morgan: I am allowed to!
Carlson: go ahead.
Morgan: I don’t want to!
Carlson: Say, “I love gay people, f*ggot.”
Morgan: I’m allowed to. I just choose not to.
Carlson: This chick just got arrested for it and convicted! So, that doesn’t have a chilling effect on your ability—
Morgan: There are people watching this who will be offended by the use of the word “chick.”
Carlson: I’m sure they will. I’m not anti-gay. I never have been. I can use any freaking word I want.
Morgan: How dare you be so sexist, comparing women to chicks?
Carlson: How about this? Let my life, the way that I actually live and treat people, be the testament to my heart. That’s how I feel.
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