Glad the free speech folks are in charge

[LuFins Dad]

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@89th said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

Wait, did he really say it's to stop inciting riots? Like, he's against that now?

Are you seriously trying to get me to break the eye rolling world record?

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[Renauda]

Imagine that, eh?

[LuFins Dad]

Do they even understand that now the employers can’t fire the people thanks to that statement?

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I take it as empty fan service, an eye for an eye smite against the dominant culture that was understood by all to impose the economic death penalty on anybody who, for instance, dared to publicly question their employer’s shiny new DEI division.

Yes, it’s all a great shame for those hoping for coherent principle rather than cultural retribution.

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@LuFins-Dad ... still better than the alternative, right? Just checking.

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@Axtremus said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

@LuFins-Dad ... still better than the alternative, right? Just checking.

Sure, empty posturing about employers firing people for high fiving in the break room over Charlie Kirk is an acceptable trade off for the erosion of the culture that gave us DEI offices in our workplaces, along with the understood consequences of criticizing them.

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[89th]

I mean, yes Trump is a hypocrite for that, but he also basically won the Presidency in 2016 over being able to say "you're fired" on a tv game show.

[LuFins Dad]

I was going to create a thread about this yesterday but had difficulty in finding the words to express my opinion. I’ll give it a shot, here.

1. Trump and the AG vocalizing the thing completely crosses a barrier and violates Free Speech as laid out in the Constitution. Private employers doing so on their own does not. That’s just the consequences of their decisions.

2. If an employer sees the posts and takes action on their own, If a concerned customer or a member of the community sees the posts and makes a complaint? If nobody in the community notices or cares, but instead it’s the result of Libs of TikTok finding the post and rallying her followers for a round of intimidation and generally being a mob?

3. There is a bit of a difference as well depending on the severity of the actions and statements. A lot of cancel culture was over much smaller and more normal interactions. Bakers and photographers deciding to not accept commissions for events that violated their personal morals, and they politely recommended somebody else. And for this they get their lives destroyed? That’s cancel culture. A restaurant chain owner making a statement of faith and that they believe in the biblical declaration of faith then having the blue haired mob protest and try to prevent those restaurants from expanding? That’s cancel culture. A school teacher posting a TikTok video cheering on a shooting and a death, telling the world that anybody that agrees with that person is a piece of shit (roughly 60% of their own students and their family), and Ben Shapiro or JK Rowling is next? Yeah, they need to be removed from their jobs.

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[LuFins Dad]

Going on a crusade because 20 years ago a comedian did a bit about trans people or somebody wore blackface to a Halloween party? Cancel Culture.

Publicly celebrating supporting domestic terrorism? Consequences.

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