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> if you express your disagreement with the current feminist/social justice ideology on a public forum, you risk losing your job to an angry Twitter mob. "Free
by empath75 9y ago
> if you express your disagreement with the current feminist/social justice ideology on a public forum, you risk losing your job to an angry Twitter mob.
"Free speech" doesn't and shouldn't protect you from facing personal consequences for your speech. If you publicly profess stupid and/or offensive ideas, other people have a right to form opinions of you because of them, and those people have a right to choose not to do business with you.
- nl 9y agoOP here - no, that's not the point here, so please don't go down this road. I think we all agree with that point. My argument is that the personal consequences of that speech aren't what people think. Yes he lost his job, but he is now celebrated in some part of (fairly mainstream) politics. That's pretty different to the examples in the linked article.
- saint_fiasco 9y agoThe people in the article are celebrated too. Not a lot of consolation for those burned at the stake, but the ones like Galileo would probably be satisfied. Fortunately nowadays Galileos are much more common than Brunos.
- detaro 9y agoWhat part of the parent post or the article are you responding to? They didn't make a "but it's free speech!" argument, to the contrary, they explicitly are about personal consequences as you describe.