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Re: 'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson suspended by A&E
I respect your point, but here's the deal. A&E is responsible for it's corporate image, and they do not want that image tarnished. True, it might not be fair, but that's the way it is. And free speech is only free speech up to a point. Like the old adage "You can't shout fire in a crowded theatre". Now exactly where that point is should be what we debate here.
As far as the government goes, free speech is free speech, no matter how wrong it is. I remember the government ruling against the Jewish community in Skokie Illinois and allowing the KKK to march there. However, A&E is not the government. It is a privately owned company, and has the right to set it's own standards of behavior. Don't like it? Then boycott it.... Isn't that what a lot of people are doing now?
Good Morning Danarhea, I personally see it as intolerance and you make the point by showing the double standards between Miley Cyrus being rewarded when some found her being outrageous while Robertson is being fired because some found his comments outrageous. When people start to become afraid to say what they really think for fear of retribution, (as many do daily in public) its proof of oppression and evidence of free speech/expression being violated.
I respect your point, but here's the deal. A&E is responsible for it's corporate image, and they do not want that image tarnished. True, it might not be fair, but that's the way it is. And free speech is only free speech up to a point. Like the old adage "You can't shout fire in a crowded theatre". Now exactly where that point is should be what we debate here.
As far as the government goes, free speech is free speech, no matter how wrong it is. I remember the government ruling against the Jewish community in Skokie Illinois and allowing the KKK to march there. However, A&E is not the government. It is a privately owned company, and has the right to set it's own standards of behavior. Don't like it? Then boycott it.... Isn't that what a lot of people are doing now?