Seems a lot of people don't like what you deceitfully call "controversial statements".
In fact, "hundreds of thousands" of people don't like these contraversial statements.
It's almost like it's about social norms or something?
A small minority of people who get offended at everything = / = social norms. That's the squeaky wheel getting their grease. Most people are able to interpret statements for what they are- the actual words. Not the emotional interpretation of them based on the fee fees of the reader.
Below are some examples from the letter of the type of things people are being ostracized for: "Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity;
journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; "
If we can't even quote literary works or circulate peer reviewed studies, what is allowed? Notice that there is nothing in that letter about allowing hate speech, or being able to keep your job after being caught on video for dropping an N bomb or telling someone to go back to where you came from.
That is YOUR interpretation of a letter that you never even read. Just like the vocal minority who gets worked up over their own interpretation of a statement instead of the actual statement itself.
You want to force employers to stop forcing
employees they don't like out?
If they don't like them, fine. When you do so for optics and to appease a vocal minority that you don't agree with, who has a false interpretation of the facts that is based on their own emotions, that's BS.
You want people to just accept bigots and dickheads and say nothing?
That sure sounds like totalitarianism.
Where did I say that? People should actually speak up, but if they are going to go attack someones character and livelihood, then it should be in the context of the actual documented facts and words surrounding the event and, not your feelings.
Seriously, where do you come up with this crap?
What's your end goal here?
Because you are absolutely free to say whatever the fück you want right now.
But like a toddler, you crave acceptance for your dickish behavior.
Not in Western Kultur, sry.
So much strawman. Yawn.