I watched the show live on Sunday, and remembering now what you were saying. I would definitely agree that being cancelled for not taking an experimental injection or for stating basic biological facts like what is a man or a woman, is NOT equivalent to cancellation for wishing someone dead. The first violates free speech or freedom to control one's own bodily autonomy. The other is hate speech with intention to cause/provoke actual harm.
BTW - as an older person (boomer 1950's) I always wonder about those who say we are losing our rights to free speech. At no point were people permitted to say anything they want in public. There used to be rules about obscenity - remember George Carlin's 7 words you can't say on television. That went away as the music industry changed - I remember the shock I felt in early 90's walking down a street on a sunny weekend afternoon, busy with shoppers and families with children, and hearing blasting loud, loud from a car radio, the N word, the F word, the motherf***ing, and more, this apparently OK because it was "rap "music""
And as I recall, never OK to call for someone's death in public or print. But for sure what is or is not permissible speech has changed dramatically over my life.
Saw the show last night and commented that I wish it were the '90s, where one simply got fired onsite for poor job performance, from one's manager, after a warning. Why is anyone getting fired for anything other than poor performance on the job, by anyone other than the one they report to?
For example, the DD worker who was so un-civil to Josh and didn't do her job to standard should have been fired. The Home Depot worker (and Josh) who were doing their jobs as required and should not have been fired for off-the-job views.
I watched the show live on Sunday, and remembering now what you were saying. I would definitely agree that being cancelled for not taking an experimental injection or for stating basic biological facts like what is a man or a woman, is NOT equivalent to cancellation for wishing someone dead. The first violates free speech or freedom to control one's own bodily autonomy. The other is hate speech with intention to cause/provoke actual harm.
BTW - as an older person (boomer 1950's) I always wonder about those who say we are losing our rights to free speech. At no point were people permitted to say anything they want in public. There used to be rules about obscenity - remember George Carlin's 7 words you can't say on television. That went away as the music industry changed - I remember the shock I felt in early 90's walking down a street on a sunny weekend afternoon, busy with shoppers and families with children, and hearing blasting loud, loud from a car radio, the N word, the F word, the motherf***ing, and more, this apparently OK because it was "rap "music""
And as I recall, never OK to call for someone's death in public or print. But for sure what is or is not permissible speech has changed dramatically over my life.
Saw the show last night and commented that I wish it were the '90s, where one simply got fired onsite for poor job performance, from one's manager, after a warning. Why is anyone getting fired for anything other than poor performance on the job, by anyone other than the one they report to?
For example, the DD worker who was so un-civil to Josh and didn't do her job to standard should have been fired. The Home Depot worker (and Josh) who were doing their jobs as required and should not have been fired for off-the-job views.
Your Honor, I rest my case :)