Rune (02-27-2021)
Rune (02-27-2021)
fine remain in denial. you also said it's just about PC words -it's not
Here are just some of the people who have been fired or have lost work for expressing their views.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/0...ture-was-real/
But common to everyone of them, they speak to their audience, outside of that audience they either tailor what they say, or assume the responsibity for it. What they do for a living often has no bearing on it and/or in fact could help validate what they have to say. Case in point, one reason why what LeBron has to say carries weight is because he takes responsibility for what he says. And he believes it. That’s the difference between LeBron and Jordan. Tiger and Kaepernick.
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
Is it fascism if people stopped supporting someone?
Anatta seems to think so.
blackascoal (02-27-2021)
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
Guno צְבִי (02-27-2021), Rune (02-27-2021)
On October 4, Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeted an image supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Despite quickly deleting the tweet, mainland China's communist government and its media subsidiaries condemned Morey for tweeting in support of Hong Kong and the NBA for half-defending Morey's right to speak his mind.
Chinese media company Tencent, which is heavily subsidized by the Chinese government and is paying more than a billion dollars to broadcast NBA games, responded with a punitive blackout spree: The company initially pledged to not broadcast Rockets games this season, then it refused to broadcast a preseason basketball game the Lakers and Brooklyn Nets played in China.
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When reporters finally got to LeBron on camera and asked him about Morey's tweet before Monday's preseason home game against the Golden State Warriors, King James threw Morey under the bus:
"We all talk about this freedom of speech—yes, we all do have freedom of speech, but at times there are ramifications for the negative, that can happen, um, when you're not thinking about others, or you're only thinking about yourself.
So, I don't believe—I don't want to get into a word or a sentence feud with Daryl, with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand, and he spoke.
And so many people could have been harmed, not only financially but physically, emotionally, spiritually.
So just be careful what we tweet, what we say, and what we do, even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative that comes with that, too."
https://reason.com/2019/10/15/lebron...ng-kong-tweet/
Lebron is trash. He talks about people getting hurt in the pocketbook -how about the Hong Kong protestors
( Or Jack Ma being disappeared to speculations that he is either arrested or placed under house arrest.)
Lebron support CCP censorship ( and malign behaviors) while criticizing Morley for his political support
for Hong Kong protestors.
Over money
Last edited by anatta; 02-27-2021 at 03:09 PM.
Rune (02-27-2021)
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
cancel2 2022 (02-27-2021)
Rune (02-27-2021)
I found what you are responding to interesting. The statement that because a person doesn't know anyone its happened too means its either 1) not true or 2) they associate with a higher level of people...
The softball response here are people like George Washington, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and FDR, Diane Feinstein etc. who got cancelled from SF schools. Now, you won't get an argument from me that many politicians are not high level people. But some of the named above did some amazing things. (And Barack Obama's name was floated as a possible new school name but there was pushback against that because he will likely be cancelled in the future based on some of his actions)
One area where cancel culture gets discussed a lot is on college campuses. Maybe this has never been the actual case, but in theory Universities are places where ideas are exchanged, discussed and debated. It's a place where, in theory, students are to be challenged and grow. But there is a palpable fear/concern among numerous University professors about the fear of being cancelled based on speaking in any way against the acceptable CRT/anti-racism movement. Now its possible many University professors are simply low character people. But for the sake of discussion lets say that isn't the case. The question then is is the ideology/movement of CRT and anti-racism more important than academic freedom and being able to speak freely and exchange ideas in the classroom? If one is all in on cancel culture then the former takes priority.
cancel2 2022 (02-27-2021)
AProudLefty (02-27-2021), Guno צְבִי (02-27-2021)
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
AProudLefty (02-27-2021)
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