RE: Free speech or Hate speech?
June 25, 2019 at 7:30 am
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2019 at 7:30 am by Losty.)
(June 24, 2019 at 4:44 am)ignoramus Wrote: Prominent Rugby champ and nice christian man, Israel Folau made an innocent passing comment "all gays will go to hell".
He has since lost his job, sponsorships (worth millions), his gofuckme gofundme page removed (he was trying to defend his right to free speech. He had already accumulated over 750K!)
Fucking hell, I don't know what to make of this clusterfuck anymore.
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What do you think? Has he got a right to be an idiot and risk everything (for sweet baby jebus), or should the corporate elites micromanage what we can and cannot say?
I think he's just a little dumb to think they'll be no repercussions
Would I be penalized in anyway of hate speech if I went around with a placard that read "Darth Vader is coming to strike you down"?
Since we here are predominantly atheist, I'm suspecting that this isn't about hurty feels but 100% political by the left?right? I don't know anymore?
Why do you assume that this is political? I assume that these are private businesses who have a right to 1) fire someone who refuses to stop misrepresenting the company and b) refuse service to (shut down page of) someone for whatever reason they wish. I realize this isn’t in America so I’m not sure how it is there but if it’s anything like America then if companies can refuse service for religious reasons they should also be allowed to refuse service to someone for being an insufferable bigot.
