My rant about free speech

 

My rant about free speech

 

Intro: I didn't want to talk about this at first because I didn't think I had a lot to say about the subject. However, something happened to our soon-to-be former President that bothers me. 

OK I know last year was challenging for almost everyone now that we're getting the vaccine sooner than expected things could get a little bit better. (My reaction to what happened on January 6.) Oh, you have got to be kidding me! After that President Trump has been ban from using any social media site. Now they have a right to do that however this scares me, I mean if they can ban the President from social media what made you think it won't happen to you? Plus, they could lose consumers.  

It's hard for me to blame President Trump for what happened because first of all, someone can argue that his supporters don't know how to read between the lines. Yes! He said if we don't fight, we won't have a country, however, I don't think that was meant to be taken literally. For those of you who are lawyers, how many times do you tell your clients if you want custody of your kids, you have to fight for them? Then again you can argue that he insinuated the situation because he showed no remorse over this, he didn't berate his supporters and he encouraged the Liberate Michigan movement. That's the problem with reading between the lines you could be wrong half of the time. Also, what about Rep. Mo Brooks? I mean what he said was more violent than what President Trump said. 

Second, the people who storm the Capitol are not kids! Do you really think people wouldn't have done that if President Trump didn't promote the idea that the election was stolen for mouths? Even if he said that the election wasn't stolen it doesn't matter because we are divided. I mean look at the last election it divided people, there was a story of a mother who threw her 8-year-old son out of the home because he voted for Mr. Trump. 

Finally, if you're going to hold President Trump's feet to the fire you should do the same thing to the media and authority figures. They're guilty of either spreading false information or not telling us the whole story. Do you remember the game telephone where you tell a story to one person and another and another to see if everyone going to tell the same story? That's how news outlets are now. For example, whenever a White person commits a crime, the media makes excuses for them. 

They're pushing a narrative that they are above committing crimes when we know that's not true. The media try to make the Capitol invasion about gun control or domestic terrorism. May I ask how? When people broke into the Capitol they did different things like taking a tour of the building, taking pictures with police, stealing, looking for proof that the election was stolen and everyone else was acting like they were in Project X. As far as gun control there was only one gun involved in this situation, so what are they talking about? I don't agree with the definition of domestic terrorism because it's no different from a revolution. Revolutions can get bloody just like a protest can get violent. So how can we view one thing as bad and not the other if we can't separate the two? 

If it was up to me, I would charge the invaders with breaking and entering, aggravated assault, and vandalism. I don't like the idea of social media banning people for false information because A they didn't care about that until now as far as I know. B This could happen to anyone I mean can you tell the difference between someone lying, exaggerating, and being misinformed? Let me get this straight you have to work with people you don't like but you can lose your job for having an opinion that people frown upon. How does that work? This is why we don't deserve to survive this virus because we let our political views push each other away and we take away people's jobs because they said something we don't like. 

When you're honest with people they react like this. 

News flash that's the price of free speech (With the expectation of promoting violence against someone.) someone is going to say something you're not fond of. People shouldn't be censored, lose their jobs or their life because of it. The fact that it does happen tells me that what the person said could be valid. If that's not the case then nothing they say shouldn't bother you, when it does you can either ignore them or change your image. I'm sorry the last suggestion won't help much because people will say bad things about you no matter what. Like I said before they don't need a legit reason to dislike you and they don't need our permission. 

Also, society needs to have a better attitude about people saying nasty things about the dead. If anyone badmouths someone who died, we shouldn't berate that person because it's not our place to do that. Do you think parents should be vilified for saying good riddance to a man who did inappropriate things with their kids and got away with it? People should have the right to express how they feel about the dead regardless of whether or not they like what the person said. Should people never fart because you don't like the smell of it? ( I know that's frowned upon but that's a sign that you have a good digestive system.) If the answer is no, then that's my point. Really, this is a backhanded compliment I mean you didn't respect the person when he or she was alive now that the person is dead you want to act like you have home training. Now if someone said something egregious at the funeral that's a different story. sidenote the dead can't defend themselves is not a good enough reason for people to not say negative things about the dead. We can't defend ourselves from authority figures abusing their power. So please come up with a better reason than that.  

Just because we have free speech that doesn't mean it will protect you from anyone who will respond in a violent way because there are certain things you shouldn't say to certain people. For example, do you think it's acceptable to say disrespectful things to a man in his own home? If the answer is no, then that's my point. Also, everyone is not going to take your opinion about any subject seriously, especially if you're not familiar with the topic. I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't talk about sports but you're not going to be a part of the group. Gatekeeping is not a bad thing because they're protecting the standards. Let's use the Olympics for example, would you be outraged if the Olympics is reduced to the same standards as the Special Olympics because the competitors are complaining about how hard it is to get a gold medal? If the answer is yes, then that's my point. (No offense to disabled people.) 

That's what annoys me about SJWs, dating coaches, and feminists because they ruin the subjects that they talk about. For example, if you don't know what it's like to be the non-select guy and you don't want to find out. Then you shouldn't be talking about them or giving them advice. Fans need to gatekeep Star Wars, comic books, or any franchise from SJWs because they ruined anything they get involved with. Feminists have no business talking about how terrible men are because they don't acknowledge the role, they play in men doing messed-up things. I'm not saying that you shouldn't be a part of the conversion however don't act like you were there from day one. This is why I don't talk about politics because I don't know much about it. 

Look it's bad enough that we're losing our right to bear arms we shouldn't lose our free speech as well. How can people learn how to be insertive without it? Walking on eggshells with street dudes and women is hard enough. It's overkill to do that with everyone else. This makes me question how can people still do Jury duty? Do people still trash talk when they play games online? Speaking of playing games online that's what annoys me about online gaming. There's a difference between heckling someone and being disrespectful. Online gamers keep crossing that line, if you're not going to say these things to the person's face you shouldn't say them at all. 

How can we learn or improve ourselves if everyone tells us what we want to hear instead of what we need to hear? I can't believe how much our culture has changed in almost twenty years. Heck, we ate up CM Punk's rant ten years ago. When American Idol first aired people praised the original judges for their brutal honesty now you get vilified for doing that. Do I really have to comment on how this is hurting comedy? There was a time where if you take a joke too far someone will let you know. Now that everyone finds everything offensive it's hard to take people's complaints seriously. This makes it hard for comedians to experiment with jokes because they're too worried about upsetting people. Like I said before offending people comes with the territory sometimes you have to take a leap of faith. What's the point of promoting diversity if we can't be individuals? I'm surprised no one is rioting or protesting over this as far as I know. If you want to live in a bubble live on an island or move to China.             

The bottom line is this free speech should be protected because without it it's going to be harder to communicate with people than it already is.