(May 1, 2014 at 2:49 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: You want a world of thought police. The fact is that his private beliefs did not noticeably have any effect on his public actions. The NAACP was prepared to offer him an award before all this.
We live in a different world then just a couple years ago. Privacy is gone...for everyone. As a society, we need to reflect more about how much latitude we give people in the privacy of their own minds.
Should we stop giving tenure to professors that ask uncomfortable questions? How about the voting booth? If it came out that Wasserman-Schultz voted for a couple Republicans should she be forces to step down? Is adultery really a disqualufier for public office? Should you lose your job because of a tweet your boss doesn't like. Calling for the resignation of anyone that deviates from public consensus in their personal life leads to witch hunts and blacklists.
What? Where did you get that from what I said?
You are conflating my defense of the NBA's actions to protect it's bottom line to thinking that a professor that asks a tough question should be ousted?
He has every right to have his opinions. When his opinions affect other people, those people also have the right to distance themselves from those opinions by whatever means they see fit. He wasn't called to resign. He was told that he was no longer welcome as an owner in the NBA, because his comments were damaging to the NBA's image, not just his own. I am half black, if my boss or the owner of the company I work for said these comments, whether he meant for them to get out or not, I would seriously consider joining together with the other black employees in my company and do something. That is my free speech. When you have a 'company' whose employees are disproportionately black, and you disproportionately rely on their performance to make money, you protect those employees' interests disproportionately.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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