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As with so many things, Shaq said it perfectly.
“We as American people, we do a lot of business in China, and they know and understand our values, and we understand their values. And one of our best values here in America is free speech. We’re allowed to say what we want to say, and we’re allowed to speak up about injustices, and that’s just how it goes. And if people don’t understand that, that’s something that they have to deal with.”
Unless, for example, we are a teacher in the Florida school system.
Yeah or a protestor at Columbia or a teacher in Oklahoma or working for the CDC or New York Times or fuck me what the fuck is happening
(I mean it is clear that Florida and Oklahoma and the administration at Columbia are rebelling against the American system. I think their tendencies are universal which includes American governing bodies too. I think part of the good sense of the American system is recognizing that people of every nationality and supposed-allegiance have certain tendencies when you put them in charge, and it isn’t at all a bad thing for them to get scared that if they act on them, someone might carry them out of the building and throw them in the harbor and find someone else to put in charge instead.)
Way too many terrible examples. And yet conservatives decided to focus on Facebook and the like as if they have the right of free speech in a non-governmental context.
Government taking away speech? Fine. But how dare they get a 24-hour ban from Facebook for calling 12 different black people the N-word in 5 minutes?!
I suspect that all the “don’t tread on me” “Obama is shredding the constitution” “1776” iconography is deliberately chosen by the propaganda designers, to mentally inoculate the followers against someone pointing out later on that they are treading all over a whole bunch of people and shredding the constitution.