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Call me old fashioned, but I do expect for things like this not to happen in an open, democratic society whose founding document explicitly declares free speech
by davesque 1y ago
Call me old fashioned, but I do expect for things like this not to happen in an open, democratic society whose founding document explicitly declares free speech to be sacrosanct.
Update: "things like this" is meant to refer to the act of suspending Kimmel's show in response to the specific, rather innocuous, comments he made in his monologue
- potato3732842 1y agoWhich "this" are you referring to, the shooting, the endorsement of it or the firing over the endorsement of it? All of them are bad but the ones on the left end of the sentence are more bad than the ones on the right. Edit: The endorsements and firings broadly speaking, not regards to anything specific to Kimmel or ABC
- jjfoooo4 1y agoKimmel in no way endorsed the shooting
- davesque 1y agoHow did Kimmel endorse the shooting? Make an argument. Show me where and how he endorsed the shooting.
- kelnos 1y agoKimmel didn't endorse the shooting. At "worst", he sorta-but-not-directly suggested that the shooter was a member of the MAGA crowd. Which he might have been; it's still quite unclear what his politics were. (And plenty of right-wing personalities on the internet had criticized Kirk in the past, so it's not like Kirk was universally beloved on the right.)