Well, I guess I’m in trouble then. Yesterday I posted on Twitter to a driver that I’ve decided to discontinue being a fan of the sport after nearly half a century of following it.
The SJW crowd instantly glommed on and started calling me a racist without bothering to find out my reason. The final straw was when NASCAR announced they would allow disrespect of the flag during opening ceremonies.
One driver ran a BLM car this week. I don’t care, that’s a team decision. As an American of African descent, he could have used his influence as the only black star in an entire sport to say this his skin color doesn’t matter but his character and talent do.
On the flip side, while I got a couple hundred comments, I got 400-500 likes from people who understand the frustration.
Social media claims two more.
It’s a college. They probably just dodged a bullet.
This is what it has come to...
...the ‘peaceful protesters’ can call us every name in the book......destroy our stores.....loot.....and beat old people
Anarchists can terrorize downtown Seattle and make their own city while throwing police out iof their precinct
Statues are beheaded, torn down and set afire
I don’t know what these two students said.....
...but do words harm more than looting, beating and terrorizing?
Their words reflect who they are or aren’t....
...but we still have First Amendment rights, don’t we?
People who are not free to be racist are not free.
I suspect that a lot of people, on both sides of the aisle, said a lot of things in high school that wouldn’t go over very well if their colleges knew about it. Thankfully we didn’t have Facebook/Twitter then.
Meanwhile, back on the ranch, racist Amazon is selling Black American Aunt Jemima Cookie Jars, but don’t tell anyone.
Censorship and abridgement of 1st amendment rights of a citizen by the state.
I do not agree with racist comments but I do support the rights of a citizen to make those comments - in private or in public.