I thought the following was an interesting take, from the special counsel for campus advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a nonprofit organization that defends Americans' rights to free speech and thought regardless of ideology:
But in the case of public employees, including those at public universities, he said it becomes more complicated because the government is generally limited to disciplining people whose comments are made in connection with their official duties.
"The question has become whether we are going to be the kind of country where you can have both a job and an opinion," he said.
Considering the rightwing nut bars are apparently building a database in an effort to get critics of the fascists fired from their jobs. Alarming.
Plus, late night commentators are losing their jobs over simple comments about the white on white male violence. Where does this shit stop?
Reminds me of Vaclav Havel's book "The power of the powerless." Havel described how workers under soviet influence must tow the party line or they get iced out of work. Harassed by the secret police.
And also reminds me of the Chernobyl disaster. The nuclear boss bullied a worker to do something hazardous, (Do what I say, or you won't have a job anymore anywhere.) Plant blew up, town shut down, lots of people died horrific deaths radiation, etc.
If America keeps this up, we'll be like workers in Chernobyl. The best and brightest voice any opinion about our fascist overloads, NO WORK FOR YOU. Then a nuclear power plant blows up. And people die. Too late.
Some say the disaster was the spark that started the break up of the Soviet Union. People stood up, stayed standing until the dictators toppled and armies lowered their weapons. It's my opinion DJT is a dictator and ICE is his own private army.
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