Is that what I said? No.
I have never read through a player's contract with a team or read through the union contract with the league.
No one took his opinion away from him. I can have an opinion about the hospital I work for. They can also fire me for it.
He was punished for his opinion. No, he wasn't jailed. His biggest problem was that he sucked at basketball. But then the Bulls could've just cut him for sucking instead of coming out and saying what they said. They made it about his opinion.
I had forgotten about him sitting out.
If someone is being oppressed for espousing a personal belief, does it matter who's doing the oppressing?
I think he is right on this one. It's probably more like a 40/60 or 60/40 issue. Hard to say because of social desirability bias and/or demand bias. Also not sure how well the difference between "I think it's wrong but the government shouldn't try to stop it/discourage it" and "I don't think it's wrong".
The right does plenty of bad stuff too. That's not what this is about.
Yeah, if someone thinks that both corporate justifications were bullshít, you feel they should be equally outraged.
The 80/20 number is about believing people have the right to speak on that which they believe they agree, not on whether they support LGBTQ causes or not.
Well, the corporate justifications were not the same, so it looks like you lost this round.
That was a terrible decision without the benefit of hindsight. There was just never a threat to healthy people to justify that kind of overreach and never proof that the vaccine reduced transmissibility enough force compliance like that. We had plenty of data in at the point the vaccine became available to know that wasn't reasonable.
I didn't take it that way, because the corporate justifications weren't the same. One chose to point to performance over language, and the other chose to point to language over performance.
The key difference is that Colbert's cancelation was directly encouraged by the Trump Administration. CBS had the right to fire him for whatever reason, including politics, but it's a big problem with when the government is tipping the scales.
Yes? Putting aside the question of whether anyone has been "opressed" in this particular case, its far worse if the government does it than if a private business does it.
The government tipping the scales on colbert is a biased take. The only people who think that happened are sympathetic to colbert. CBS has clarified that plenty but people still allow their own biases to ignore truths because TRUMP.
I agree. So it was terrible that Canada wouldn't allow Kyrie to play in Toronto over a personal conviction. Glad we're aligned on that.
Kimmel was suspended because Carr made it very clear that he wanted action.
"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
I agree with this, but it also applies to how the government behaved in relation to social media post-covid. The Biden Administration was putting pressure on social media companies to silence dissent. To me, that is a much greater crime than a failing late night host losing his show.
Normal people? What a bunch of hootnanny. How do educated people still believe a bunch of crazy tales written 2500 years ago by people who didn't even know the world was round? I'll tell you how, because it makes them feel morally superior - case in point, "normal people." I've got to go write my letter to Santa Claus.
But he cried later, so it's all good. With hindsight, how stupid does Kimmel look? The joke isn't remotely funny (is there even a joke here?) or based in fact (the shooter was a leftist). I imagine his audience's IQ is below room temperature.
Without those people you wouldn't have the periodic table, the laws of thermodynamics, or modern genetics, amongst other amazing contributions from Christians. But hey, let's paint with a broad brush a little.
Did you leave out Copernicus and Lemaître (the two most important astronomers to our modern understanding of the universe) because they were Catholic priests, or did you just make a comment in passing and forget them?
Ok, yeah that is what I remember causing some to clutch pearls. I remember both the left and the right working really hard to try and distance the shooter from their side.
"you must tolerate intolerance or you yourself are intolerant" is dumb batman logic.
"I don't like it therefore it must be hate speech"
I couldn't possibly include all the Christians who've contributed to our understanding of the world. I just grabbed a few Newton, Mendel, etc. to stand in for all of them. Catholic or Protestant, they fit the description of @CoastRat.sixpack
