re: #390 A Mom Anon

Also, how would anyone know how you voted unless you crowed about it publicly? I personally don’t tell people how I vote for anything, but, if you know me and take the time to talk with me sometimes, you could probably figure it out. Still, there’s no proof how I voted, just my word, or not.

I’m honestly not sure what the hell Kilgore’s point is here. Sure, be a bigot, be a jerk if you feel you have to. But that free speech doesn’t come without any challenges to it or consequences. Rush Limbaugh for example is allowed to say whatever the hell he wants, it’s protected under the first amendment. However, he is not entitled to a national platform, a fat paycheck or a syndicated radio program as part of his first amendment protections. He’s also not free from people responding negatively to his supreme brand of assholishness and his legacy of hatred. People seem to have this misconception that the first amendment protects them from consequences, um no.

I’m thinking he is fine with his own form of personal outrage about the firing but has no room for anyone else’s outrages.

Which may also mean that if Killgore was from the antebellum south, he would be outraged with the northerners politics of the whole ‘slave thing’ they were all so outraged about.