It’s a boogeyman. The right loves their boogeymen, it’s basically their entire platform.
On the bright side, that doesn’t seem to have been the case so far for notorious right-wing troll Milo Yiannopoulos. Declaring that pedophilic abuse of 13-year-olds can be “consensual” was apparently a bridge too far even for the alt-right.
Its just because his name is too hard to pronounce.
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Who’s outraged? An actress said really dumb things, over and over again, and she lost work because of it. Big fucking deal. That’s how the world works sometimes.
I completely agree that it’s no big deal. Where I seem to have gone wronig, in the minds of some here, is that I don’t think it would have been a big deal if she’d kept on working in her series, either.
Understood, but I think it’s fair to debate and question the degree of consequence someone should face. It seems like the knee-jerk reaction to saying something dumb, taking a knee during the anthem, or whatever is to say “fire their ass.” I don’t take that lightly - firing is an attempt to destroy someone, in a sense. Trying to destroy their livelihood.
Let’s be honest: everyone loves a good bogeyman.
I think where you went wrong is jumping into the thread, admitting you had no knowledge of the subject, but still spouting off as if you know better than anyone else.
I said that I’d never heard of this actress before today. So what? I read up on what she’d said, this time, and in the past, and she’s an idiot. I’m permitted to think that getting all worked up about a pretty trivial person saying some stupid things is kind of pointless.’
This is even less consequential than the debate over Bernie Sanders’ mittens.
Keep bothsidesing it man, it’s working so good for you this far.
I agree that getting all worked up over Gina Carano is pointless. It’s fucking stupid to be breathlessly apoplectic over a company deciding that an employee’s liability outweighs their value. It’s moronic to disparage the users of a platform for informing the vendor that they are dissatisfied with the product they’re paying for.
Unlike asahi’s ill-informed “couldn’t bother to scroll to the bottom of the page” outrage, I’ve been quietly following this for a few months. And I am satisfied that capitalism has done its job. Public pressure has convinced a public company to no longer retain the services of a hate-filled idiot for reasons which do not violate any civil rights statutes. Works for me.
Okay.
Someone might come to kill him/her/them!
Conservatives had no problems a few years ago saying that Colin Kaepernick and others players who kneeled during the National Anthem should be punished for expressing their views.
He’s in the same situation as Barr and Carano. As a gay man, Yiannopoulos is outside the circle of protection.
And mind you, their protests involved an actual political opinion (namely, that black lives matter and that racist oppression of black people is a serious societal problem). Not a bunch of blatantly false assertions on matters of fact hiding behind the figleaf of the “opinion” label.
Another important distinction is you don’t have Joe Biden making public statements telling businesses they shouldn’t employ people who express opinions he doesn’t like.
And, of course, when the NFL caved to a right wing boycott over Kapernick, the left didn’t whinge about how boycotts were unfair, we instituted our own boycott to try to get the NFL to reverse their position.
I confined my whinging to the fact that the highest government official in the nation demanded he be blackballed for expressing his grievances with the government.