Off Topic The Politics Thread

Whats a weight?

 

Whoops, there’s also a video doing the rounds where he comments about people of other ethnicities in a very, very negative way, he’s also looking for a new job so if you think people should be able to spout this without it reflecting on your work please hit him up and offer him work.

 

Whats your point Wills ?
Fella makes a complete **** of himself and spouts racist/homophobic/fundamentalist bollox on social media and ruins his life over it.
It’s happened before and will happen again.......What’s it got to do with politics or anyone on here ?

 

a while back there was a freedom of speech discussion and this is point in case where yeah he’s free to spout this stuff but the repercussions on his life have been hefty. People on here were suggesting this sorta thing should not reflect on his work status,

 

That’s up to his employer I guess.......but I agree to a point..it really shouldn’t

 

With pretty much most jobs you have colleagues or customers or business relationships. Or a mix of the lot, do you not consider his views would be counter productive in building these relationships? The guy literally said that he hates people of other ethnicities and stands by his statement. As soon as you have any interaction be that employ or have a business relationship with one of the many people he hates could you not see a problem? As an employee in the modern world you represent your company and by making these statements on a public forum that can reflect back on the business. Would you go to a pub run by or has an employee who supports NAMBLA? (Heard of them through South Park but they exist)

 

Not really.....I worked with people who supported the aims of ISIS, in fact one girls brother was killed fighting for them in Syria....she worked ok and did her job.
I used to drink sometimes in the Adam and Eve in Hayes.....it was a known IRA pub.
You sometimes seem a little obsessed by race.

 

I see a lot of racism going on and think it’s **** and especially with the likes of Trump you can see how he pandered to racists to get votes which is very dangerous.

 

A bit like Brexit really.

 

Trumps gone mate......They are coming for the left now on social media. It’s what you wanted.

 

Is it?

 

Who’s coming for the left? Should I be worried?

 

Did you not celebrate Trump being banned on twitter ? If not I apologise....

 

We all should young ‘un

 

The fella incited an insurrection. I laughed definitely, celebrated not so much but he did try to attack democracy.

 

Point missed.
So I’m assuming that you were ok with various left wing groups and individuals being censored and banned by Facebook ? If not I would be surprised......you can’t have it both ways after all.

 

depends what they did. Did they incite an insurrection?

 

That’s not the point.....the point is the banning and social media having the right to ban who they please, when they please.
You would be a hypocrite to agree with one being banned but not the other......

 

Nope it depends what they have banned them for. That’s the point I doubt the two cases are exactly the the same. From my understanding Trump was banned and should have been banned earlier for the blatant spread of lies/misinformation, some of which over covid has cost people their lives

Although if we like it or not these are businesses and owe individuals nothing and can ban who they like. From my understanding they currently ban people who break their terms and conditions.

 

Do you not think the newspapers and tv networks prior to social media were manipulating the public by showing people what they wanted us to see, and not showing us things they didn’t.