Chilliwack Progress editor fired after anti-Christian remarks
Chilliwack's oldest community newspaper has parted ways with its editor, Paul Henderson, after he posted a series of tweets mocking Christian prayer requests for a toddler fighting for his life after nearly drowning in Cultus Lake.
"You can't be mad about hatred against you today if someone who looked kind of like you was mean long before you were born" is the rallying cry of the useful idiot.
He's Satanist. He is not a useful idiot, but a person willfully using deception and deceit for personal gains.
This sort of outgoing racist potshot non-apology is so common when a leftist faces “consequence culture” that someone smarter than me should come up with a name for it. They literally do this every time one of them gets fired for being a complete asshole. The only thing that varies is which minority group that roar about as they pack up their desks.
I dunno, when will "Indigenous peoples" stop genocide each other themselves?
LOL he's pretending he was fired for simply being an atheist: https://archive.is/jjYO2
https://archive.is/NqGlw
As an atheist I can confirm he was not fired for that, but for being a nasty piece of shit.
But he's not an atheist. He's a Satanist.
I don't condone firing people over dumb shit said on their personal twitter accounts. Apparently I'm the only one. I don't care about the substance of it. Why not just tell that person what you think of them on twitter and move on?
Absolute reddit tier behavior, good Lord.
"Sure, I said something dumb, and this is definitely my actions having consequences, but hwhite people, okay?"
I don't think that's really an apology.
When you become a journalist by definition sharing any bias regarding a story is grounds to be removed.
This isn't a free speech issue it is about a lack of journalistic integrity.
See that is the problem, once you take up a position as editor you are now publicly an unbiased figure. Any public stances you take puts your position at jeopardy.
He chose to be an editor so he's responsible for his public statements. In this case he was irresponsible so he was rightly removed.
Certain sacrifices have to be made for impartiality and he refused to.
It is part of the job he took. Very few jobs require you to be publicly neutral but a Journalist or Editor falls under that.
There's a big reason that until recently you never saw the editors of major publications take public stances, it would permanently taint the publication. That's part of his job.
That's not how that works. People don't lose their personal, principled right to free speech by virtue of taking any job. This wasn't just a news story. This was an event that happened within the community, being commented on by a member of that community and in that capacity.
Why even try to erode free speech? How could this kind of petty bullshit possibly help anyone?
You are missing the point. Certain positions require public neutrality in order to stay employed. Editor is one of them.
This isn't about free speech, it is about professionalism. Editors can publicly say whatever they want however if what they publicly say threatens the publics belief in the neutrality of their employer that is a fireable offense.
Think of a Judge publicly saying on social media that he's going to be 'incredibly hard on thieves.' A defense attorney can use that as evidence that he's biased and have his judgements thrown out.
It just comes with the position.
Disclaimer: I'm not Canadian.
The context is that Christian churches have been getting burned down at an incredible rate in Canada thanks to hoaxes about "muh idengenious POCs getting genocide by evil mayo monkey Christians" while the Canadian government largely turns a blind eye. The discussion needs to be about the over arching unpersoning of Canadian Christians instead of highfalutin abstractions.
iirc, PM Blackface said he understands the rage of the arsonists. Basically it was his, "could have been my son" moment.
I should have said, "actively encourages it."
So people are not allowed to say that evil mayo monkey Christians genocided the POC any more?
As some people are so fond of saying, actions have consequences.
In a perfect world, the most this sanctimonious fuck would have to worry about would be the child's family punching him the fuck out for being a rude piece of shit. But we don't live there, and it's foolish to pretend we do.
Their rules, applied fairly, so they get to deal with the internet lynch mobs.
As their side says so often 'freedom of speech isnt freedom from consequences.'
Or to quote the reddit-tier brainlet from XKCD he is 'just being shown the door.'
I fucking hate that comic.
Never have I seen a more blatant 'masks off' moment that people somehow parade around like it's a good thing to aspire too.
I think its a larger problem that people feel comfortable posting their political opinions loudly enough across internet channels linked directly to their work. "Opinions are my own" is a cheap copout that has the same weight as "I'm not racist, but..." in terms of meaninglessness and shouldn't ever be considered valid.
The only reason to have your name and face attached to your social media that you use to be a loud twat on is because you want to also use it for business. Which means it now becomes an actual professional issue instead of just "fired for opinion."