Re:Blog Anonymously
by throwaway894345 on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:52PM
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If your "political engagement" is slandering someone to their employer with the express goal of having them terminated, then I think that should come with consequences. But I wouldn't materially punish someone for simply having these kinds of abhorrent beliefs. In other words, if you believe it's okay to harass people for wrongthink you shouldn't be punished, but if you actually do harass people for wrongthink, you should be punished.
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Clearly I need to spell this out more clearly. Do you believe that support of Trump should be without consequences? I don't have the details of the three cases discussed above, but the lack of detail is exactly the problem: It paints politics as a game that we can supposedly play with no real-world results. I object to that framing (as well as the framing that any degree of "support" for a candidate is equally damning).
> Do you believe that support of Trump should be without consequences?
Yes.
You do realise your position violates multiple UN human rights?
Take a read through the lot of them. Please.
https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
People have died to maintain these rights. Please stop trying to tear them down. You're not woke. You're asleep.
Which human rights does my position violate? Please, enlighten me.
YOU do realize that human rights don't include a blanket prohibition on people treating you differently due to your political opinions?
Also, how do you reconcile these "universal" human rights in a state that violates them?
They apply to everyone, regardless of political stance.
Articles 12, 20, 21, 23, 29.
You do realise that while not a blanket prohibition on treating you differently, employment, wellbeing and political leanings are expressly covered for obvious reasons.
But I never suggested that Trump supporters should have their employment or wellbeing threatened for their support of Trump... I am merely making the point that support for Trump could reasonably be part of making one's colleagues feel unsafe. Additionally, the fact that political opinion is protected does not mean that a person's politics can be ignored.