Protest with sings and tabling is speech. Shouting someone down is not speech it is right s denying behavior. When you should someone down you have gone from answering what you percive as a bag idea with another idea to engaging in vigilante strong arm tactics to stop someone from engaging in their own right to…
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No, no they don’t have the right to shout him down or free speech is meaningless. It is not just the state who can surpress speech, most of the black lists against comminist writerwc in the 50s came from private Hollywood studios. If that was an attack on free speech which it was then so too is shouting down a speaker…
No the argument is when your protest moves from sign holding to no platforming which is a behavior not a speech act, that you are denying the speaker his or her right to free speech.
You have a right to protest as long as it doesn’t impede other people’s speech, in other words table, hold up signs, pass out literature, etc. When you shout down a speaker though you have moved beyond the bounds of protest as an expression of speech into the behavior of suppressing someone else’s speech. And no the…
Jalopnik is becoming the anti-car site. I guess that’s what I get for reading a Gawker network site.
Until you drop 5K on a battery truck which would buy you a nice used pickup. Oops...
Yeah well how about sports cat drivers who drive 70 in school zones, because muh Bembo brakes and going slow is for pussies? Of course the crack you smoke is the good kind of crack so whateva.
That’s a classic Poe.
All cars are planet wreckers and health hazards fool. You are like some guy saying my heroin addiction is so much better than your daily crack use. Get over yourself you too are part of the problem even if you drive a smart car, Prius, or a 3 cyclinder whateva.
Same I drive an e46 BMW in a rural area, I am lucky to work online but I understand why my neighbors need big trucks for their work. If Jalopnik is going to descend to facebook post level trolling of sedan and truck owners I am out
Even a Prius that takes millions of BTUs of energy to make and has batteries that degrade every few years is a planet wrecker. Please bike or walk if you want to back your words with deeds and aren’t engaging in mere empty virtue signaling.
Pro tip you want to fix environmental problems offer solutions like Elon Musk not control freakery and bitter I am superior moral asshatery. Moral condemnations of millons of Americans without bothering to understand their circumstances is hate speech.