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Dec. 20th, 2002 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weaktwosSo Trent Lott stepped down today.
This event brought me to thinking about whether this is a Freedom of Speech issue. Some Lott supporters are suggesting it is. Mind you, the well educated supporters haven't said anything, yet. I'm a little curious about what the Supreme Court would say about this. I'm thinking the idea of freedom of speech had to do with not jailing you for expressing your views. I don't think it has anything to do with guaranteeing you a job, or a place of prestige. So, Trent was caught saying a very stupid thing, and then he added to it by coming across as silly on BET, and now he's just got to back up and lay low.
I'd like to know who was at that birthday party that wanted to destroy Trent's career. More than a free speech issue, I think it's a bad karma issue.
The Republican Party wants to tell the people that they are not a racist party, they just happen to have a high concentration of white men in government, that's all. At least that's my perception, and I'm searching for data to back that up, but thus far, I'm not looking in the right place.
Well, I need to quit my gabbin' and run some errands...
This event brought me to thinking about whether this is a Freedom of Speech issue. Some Lott supporters are suggesting it is. Mind you, the well educated supporters haven't said anything, yet. I'm a little curious about what the Supreme Court would say about this. I'm thinking the idea of freedom of speech had to do with not jailing you for expressing your views. I don't think it has anything to do with guaranteeing you a job, or a place of prestige. So, Trent was caught saying a very stupid thing, and then he added to it by coming across as silly on BET, and now he's just got to back up and lay low.
I'd like to know who was at that birthday party that wanted to destroy Trent's career. More than a free speech issue, I think it's a bad karma issue.
The Republican Party wants to tell the people that they are not a racist party, they just happen to have a high concentration of white men in government, that's all. At least that's my perception, and I'm searching for data to back that up, but thus far, I'm not looking in the right place.
Well, I need to quit my gabbin' and run some errands...
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Date: 2002-12-20 12:33 pm (UTC)No one silenced Trent Lott, or killed him, or threw him in a dungeon. He's still free to say anything he likes about Strom Thurmond or anything else. He just has to face the fact that some people may not like what he has to say, and as a result may not want to listen to him anymore. Same as everyone else.