Posted by brooks on June 6, 2019, 6:24 pm, in reply to "Re: So poitnless"
Oh you can think and say and feel whatever you want, but it doesn't change the effect of your position.
Thank you for the permission. I imagine the effect of my position - aside from this annoying thread - is about zero.
You choose to attack GG for something he said, instead of attacking those who silence him because of something he said.
Condemning a large, neoliberal news corporation for firing a dissident journalist, would be like condemning a shark for eating a raw side of beef someone threw in the water, pretty pointless. But if it would make you feel better, ok, f*ck Rupert Murdoch, the little fascist, for not allowing free speech in his newspapers. And I'm not "attacking" Galloway. I'm expressing regret for what I think was a bad decision, regret based - as I've said repeatedly - on admiration for his journalism and the loss of an excellent program. I don 't think that qualifies as an "attack".
So, in effect you are siding with the Thought Police and that's the same as saying GG got what he deserved.
No, I'm not siding with the Thought Police and it's not the same at all. Just as I'm not saying NSA whistleblower Daniel Everett Hale deserved to be indicted and charged by the US government under the Espionage Act for leaking classified information to the Intercept, if I call, it a pretty dumb thing to do given that that publication had already burned three sources. Saying someone should perhaps have been more cautious in a given situation is completely different than saying they deserved whatever consequences that lack of caution may have partly resulted in, or "siding with" those who administer those consequences. I'm surprised you can't see this.