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PeteyParker posted...

Yeah good luck on that one. You have a better chance of finding a leprechaun riding a unicorn on the way to visit Bigfoot than having any Republican being fired for mocking someone's murder. It's a character feature for them, not a flaw.

Must be my lucky day then: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53287892

Yes, right-wingers do get held accountable for noxious views as well. Which is as it should be.

LightSnake posted...

What's happening is the weaponization of state power to attack and silence critics in a double standard that cannot be extricated from the situation.

The subject of the topic is an employee of a private company. To the best of my knowledge, the Trump admin did not play any role in her firing.

If you want to talk about the public sector employees that have been fired over their posts, that is a different discussion.

LightSnake posted...

Again, this is not "left wingers should have carte blanche to celebrate deaths." This is, again, a vulnerable minority being targeted for expressing joy over the death of a man who actively attempted to foment violence against her and wished her eradicated.

The problem that I have with this is that as soon as you open the door to "It's OK for some people to celebrate and mock murder, depending on who they are and who the victim is", you're going to get a lot of people trying to cram in that space. You're going to get the mouth-breathers screaming "George Floyd was a criminal who deserved what he got!" trying to parrot that same justification.

I don't think it's unreasonable for us as a society to set the standard of "murder is bad and should not be celebrated" without provisos attached to it. This individual can feel happy and relieved that Kirk is gone from the public sphere, and I am sympathetic to that... but she should still bear in mind that publicly celebrating his murder in a way that can be tied back to her is probably going to make a large number of people mad which, in turn, is going to get her fired by a corporation that reasonably does not want to court controversy.

LightSnake posted...

Charlie Kirk: We need to genocide transgenders
Transgender people: Hah, Charlie Kirk got got!

You see how these two are not morally equivalent, right?

Never said they were and I'm not sure why you're assuming otherwise.

LightSnake posted...

Meanwhile, MAGA is creating a massive database to punish anyone who so much says "Charlie Kirk was not a saint," so miss me with this "it should not be acceptable to celebrate ANYONE dying."

I fail to see how the first half of this sentence connects to the second.

MAGA going after people who are saying relatively benign things is wrong. I've said so in this topic already. That doesn't suddenly justify celebrating murder.