RIP Free Speech
- Thread starter obatiger
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Where did it go? Unless you yell bomb on a plane or something you're not going to jail for speech, but free speech does not protect from your job or others. Free speech is an amendment, it's not on page 8 of the employees handbook.
You have to say "No offense...", then you can say whatever you want.
I don't think people really understand what free speech actually is.
And the second amendment? Ha! Only cops should be armed........but they are racist..........Wait a minute.
I prefer “with all due respect”
You’re free to say whatever you please. You must also be willing to accept the consequences of saying whatever it is you want or need to say.
Agreed. The protestors keep saying it’s time we have a conversation about police brutality against blacks. Then someone else comes along and says it’s time we have a conversation about police brutality in general, not just blacks, and provide a lot of statistics showing that it isn’t racially motivated. Second person gets blasted and called a racist, because it’s not time to talk about any other issue other than how police treat blacks. Statistics or not, it’s time to talk about their feelings.
Nothing will get done, because you cannot have said conversation based on feelings alone and no facts. They don’t want to have a conversation. They want to make demands. They aren’t open to facts or statistics that don’t fit their narrative. The media doesn’t emphasize police brutality unless it contains a racial angle, because it doesn’t incite rage or viewer interest.
Nobody is defending the cop that killed George Floyd or the other three that stood by and watched. They broke laws, violated policy, and are being dealt with appropriately. The same people that are saying that brutality complaints against officers need to be taken more serious also support unions that protect said officers against said complaints.
Nothing will get done, because you cannot have said conversation based on feelings alone and no facts. They don’t want to have a conversation. They want to make demands. They aren’t open to facts or statistics that don’t fit their narrative. The media doesn’t emphasize police brutality unless it contains a racial angle, because it doesn’t incite rage or viewer interest.
Nobody is defending the cop that killed George Floyd or the other three that stood by and watched. They broke laws, violated policy, and are being dealt with appropriately. The same people that are saying that brutality complaints against officers need to be taken more serious also support unions that protect said officers against said complaints.
This is so reminiscent of the early days of the Me Too movement when Matt Damon got blasted for saying that it was important to make distinctions between levels of bad conduct.
