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.
Now, this is going to be potentially a really unpopular opinion given the nature of what the guy did, but I'm going to have to come down on the side of free speech here. I don't think that anyone deserves to be fired for posting an opinion and honestly this doesn't even seem that outrageous he just comes across as a typical cringe Atheist+ type to me and I'm not religious.
Mind you I don't have context here and I'm out of the loop, but this is the sort of thing that does actually make the right look bad even to people who are fair about them. Unless you're going to tell me the guy started stalking the child's family and posting horrible shit about the child then yeah that would make sense but the worse crime he's committed here is being a typical cringe leftist.
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.
That's in reference to their articles and stories not their personal social media profiles.
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.
Unless he's stated his social media profile is for that purpose you don't have an argument my instinct is telling me this is pure outrage bait and I'm not buying it.
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?
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."
We are in a war between good and evil. We should be so lucky a journalist got what he deserved even in the slightest. I don’t care how it looks; you should stand up for God and his followers.
This place seems to have a complicated relationship with that concept.
You're posting like an SJW, it's cringe.
LoL you’re posting like a tiny hat. And everyone notices...
I think this goes to show you how few people support actual free speech. I'm not sure if they would feel differently if they were extended the right in practice. They aren't, in practice, so I'm not gonna judge.
I can fully support all of this being the actions of free people and still tell the newspaper that I think they're wrong and they suck. Free speech can only be mandated so far by the government. People have to believe in it.
What's weird about this case is nothing he said comes close to any lines. The speech is at worst rude, not anything close to threatening or slanderous.
Exactly, that's my main view on it as well and this attitude is why I've gotten more and more fed up with right wingers. Anime and Games are my litmus test, why? Because it's a free speech issue, this may come across as a random tangent but like you point out so many on the right are revealing themselves as to be just as anti-free speech as the left they're just using it as a way to attract people from other factions.
I want nothing to do with these snakes and grifters, they're no better than neo-cons, it's the rise of the evangelical right all over again and the left only have themselves to blame for it.
Well the "stormfags" aren't free speechers. Such is not a tenet of National Socialism.
Cause and effect.
Most people here won't have a problem with the degenerate left if they had kept their mouths and legs shut. The mentality we have here it's just a natural response to the all out assault from our enemies.
Do you think the citizens of London shed any tears as Hamburg burns? No.