(October 26, 2010 at 5:25 pm)Synackaon Wrote: Look, to get back on track, I feel that NPR's firing of Juan Williams was morally and ethically wrong.
Bad morals as it devalues honesty in favor of political correctness, which the latter is a component of nothing but double speak.
Bad ethics as to holds employees hostage to the desires of unknown interest groups despite their employment to say what they think - a clear contradiction. If those groups and their interests were known, it would be full disclosure than.
Goddamnit, he admitted that he got nervous about Muslims, then spent his time arguing that we must get over it.
I have to agree, of course they could have also been looking for *any reason* to fire him, much like the stories you hear all the time when it happens to everyday people.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal