That is not what is messed up in this country. Free speech means the government is not supposed to punish you or infringe on your right to speech. It never meant that your speech should have no consequences. It was always the case that you could get fired if your speech crossed the lines drawn by your employer.
What we have now is categories of protected speech and banned speech. If you curse whitey or rail against homophobia you cannot be fired. But if you pray at work or oppose liberal policies you can be fired at will. Now just using the wrong word can get you fired or end your career. No one wants to bother looking into the ideas or information contained in those words for actual harm to people. They just want to short cut the process by banning words.
“What we have now is categories of protected speech and banned speech. If you curse whitey or rail against homophobia you cannot be fired.”
Picture a coupla white boys getting off scot free after standing outside a polling place in Watts calling people names and threatening them.
Yep, just ask Dr. Laura and Senator George Allen.
Leni