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Free speech enthusiast now up to three boycotts a week

https://newsthump.com/2024/06/14/free-speech-enthusiast-now-up-to-three-boycotts-a-week/

A man who is a staunch believer in free speech after spending the last four years bemoaning cancel culture, is now up to three boycotts a week because of things people said.

A man who is a staunch believer in free speech after spending the last four years bemoaning cancel culture, is now up to three boycotts a week because of people saying things he didn’t like.

5 comments

goferking0

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you don't understand boycotts don't count as cancel culture! It's okay when we do it.

note it's never okay when it's boycotting israel

sunzu

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There is a lesson in there about the current power structure.

LEDZeppelin

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Sounds like Eel On

dogsnest

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In Teresting.

Please_Do_Not

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Except that's the whole idea of free speech. Others are free to react to it how they wish. I may boycott Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-A, while an idiot might boycott Bud Light and anyone "woke," but we can both be doing so while defending free speech.

An onion article like this works both ways and implies that leftists are opposed to free speech if we choose to boycott people and organizations that empower the right and oppress others. I think that the message just has to be "free speech has consequences and is still worth practicing and defending, even if those consequences are often imposed by the ignorant." Boycotting is one of the let's best tools, too, and we should be using it often.

Deebster

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DIY store Waitrose

I don't get this joke - why is this (decidedly non-budget) supermarket a DIY store?