that’s Harper, he’s an asshole. You had to know things would get ugly due to bill C-51.
I still blame America. Fucking Curious George Bush and his 'you’re either with us or a terrorrizerist" hee haw hillbilly mentality, convincing our corrupt as fuck leader that we need to start stomping out terror in all forms.
And that israel thing isn’t a guarantee yet. I figure all this will just lead to C-51 getting appealed or shot down by the senators.
I immediately regret bringing Israel into the discussion because now I’m worried this thread could veer off in that direction. My point was just that good ole Canada is not the beacon of Freedom that was once looked up while laughing at America. We keep fucking up over and over again.
He was on stage. It was HIS show, HIS comedy club at that point in time. If the lesbians did not like what he was saying, they could have walked out. One of the women escalated the confrontation by assaulting the comedian and he, in turn, acted against that. Let’s not muddle it up. I’ll post the entire incident here:
To sum it up, the judge decided what can be deemed funny. The comedian made an off-color remark during HIS SHOW and then one of the women attacked him. When she didn’t get her way the next day, she screamed at the restaurant that the owner supports violence against women and then filed charges.
Let’s set aside everything else and focus on the free speech part. This is a case of actual First Amendment violation in the States. What the women many have construed as hateful was the comedian’s right to say during his performance because it falls under art. The judges in Canada blocked it and said it wasn’t because they don’t believe it was funny.
See, that’s why Canada doesn’t believe in freedom of speech. So eat my hairy asshole.
And you obviously have zero concept of a public servant. Not a private citizen. Literally, look it up. Fun fact, both a politician and someone that does administrative work for the government no matter what level…both work as public servants!! That said I get your point and honestly kind of agree with you for the most part but I dont think it reflects the country itself.
Although I do agree that people went out of their way to find him. And his function is likely similar to anyone in the private sector. He’s not in the private sector. In fact, anyone that makes over 100k here in Canada within the public sector by law has their identity and salary exposed to the public. But the biggest point of all is that with the media the way it is, no one is a private citizen anymore. Comon people. I don’t condone what happened and i genuinely feel bad for this guy and think its an overreaction. At the same time, if you say something wrong on Facebook and you get exposed to the media and have your employer in your profile… you’re done. That’s the world we live in these days regardless of Canada or US.
one judge in BC =! Canada
This is a hot topic in studies and thinkpieces right now. Because technology has made our lives easier, it’s actually made it more difficult to separate our work selves and our personal selves. Americans are becoming way more uniform and that’s a bad thing. That’s why you see so many creatives just leave social media for periods of time. They don’t want to deal with shit from people who don’t like their work. It sucks for every day workers because they always have to be on their toes, being sure not to offend anyone because their opinion may not sit right with some people.
It’s an awful way to live. It’s as if Big Brother is literally all over you just waiting for a mistake. Who wants a world like that?
Sure does when it’s Canada’s Supreme Court of British Columbia.
I don’t know about your country, but in mine we only have so many supreme courts: one in every state and one federal one. I imagine in Canada there’s one for each province and maybe one on the federal level.
Lol Canada.
Honestly as someone who has works in management, if a sexual harassment type claim is brought up on the individual it HAS to be investigated by management or I can be fired. In general I recommend co-workers not to friend each other on facebook and keep reasonable public discourse online and for God’s sake don’t put your employer on your facebook profile and keep your linked in profile off of the public searches. Now that we have social media and recording devices true freedom of speech doesn’t exist. You can say whatever you want as long as it is politically correct and not offensive. The issue is that people can be offended by anything, so you really need to be mindful of what you put out there if you have a good job. This guy was stupid to put himself out there and draw that kind of heat.
That would be true if brand and image couldn’t destroy a company. If the company you spent your life building employed this guy, you would definitely perform some type of disciplinary action to not anger your customers and/or ruin your company’s general image…
I would love to see the reverse happen…if a company does something that embarrasses my image as an employee of theirs, I should be allowed to sue them.
The company didn’t sue the employee. The logical equivalent would be to simply quit, which people do all the time…
They can easily put him on unpaid leave. There where way more ways this could have been handled, but the mob wouldn’t allow it if it caught wind.
And that’s the most ironic thing about the public. It’s a force of evil that’s just a mindless mob with no regard to the lively good of people in a fair and logical manner. It doesn’t matter if the punishment doesn’t fit the crime, there needs to be a sense of vindictive and utter retribution against the smallest of things
Somehow, this one lapse is equivocal to the complete and utter financial ruin of a person according to some of you and according to tvhe mob. The mob and it’s followers have the biggest God complex I have ever seen, it is in fact the real God that dictates our lives.
This is precisely why we as a people create institutions which place restrictions against the mob. Some are built with diffrwnt philosophies and intents in mind, but all stem to control the mob and it’s unpredictable volatility as a a force of cruelty.
Either way, it’s embarrassing that Canadians feel like the restriction of free speech is a good thing, it’s doubly sad that people in this thread and out here believe this guy deserved getting fired and more.
Acting like he actually raped the reporter and Fucked HER RIGHT IN THE PUSSY!
This happens all the time in USA on Facebook and other social media sites with people acting like morons(freedom to be a fuckhead), as if this is new or a Canadian thing lol
This.
People seem to forget that freedom of speech is not equal to free of consecuences.
You know how this guy got fired? Someone at the company saw him on TV and recognized him. Literally no one knew who he was or where he worked so it was impossible for the company to suffer a public black eye. If the owner had shut the fuck up, no one would’ve known his name and it wouldn’t be news.
The difference here is that a mob wasn’t formed to fire the guy, which is what happens in America. What happened here was that his employer saw it and took it upon himself to fire him while he was still unknown to the public.
No one cares about FHRITP because it’s old as fuck and so many people have done it on TV that it’s banal.