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.
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.