Originally Posted by
HK Dukie
Apparently, I disagree with almost everyone (who posts) on this board about the following...
(1) Kyrie Irving is a good person (very generous, cares about the less fortunate, calls out causes and is willing to take a stand, has the empathy to not tell other people what to think but tries to encourage them to open their mind to decide for themselves).
(2) Facts are facts, regardless of what idiot is saying them.
(3) Free speech is protected from government interference even at private companies (if the government is pressuring the private institutions...private institutions can have their own rules but our government violates the first amendment when it puts pressure on said institutions to restrict speech).
Liking or sharing a particular post from someone does not constitute an endorsement of that persons entire history and beliefs. For example, I can like a post about Einstein's general theory of gravity without endorsing his misunderstanding of quantum mechanics or views about women. I can celebrate the Duke basketball program as it is today despite the entire school being founded by tobacco money which kills people. 7 million people approximately die every year from smoking. That money founded Duke University. Does everything it currently stands for get eliminated because of that prior association? If you like a post from Duke University, are you then associated with Kyrie, who is then associated with a crazy nut ball because of a post he shared? Should you be shunned in polite society because you are associated with an association of an association? Or maybe can we just agree that a broken clock can be right twice a day and that when asked what time it is, it is ok to say the exact time even though that broken clock that no one likes happens to coincidentally be correct this time.
Now, I do not care to click on anything Alex Jones nut ball related so I dare not even click on the links. But those who have seem to suggest there is a comment about global tyranny. Whether or not there is an encroaching global tyranny, do you not want your fellow citizens vigilant to prevent the possibility of a global tyranny? Isn't 1000 false positives better than a single false negative here? Have you seen what is happening in China, Russia, and many other non-western democracies? Did you not see the power grab from even institutions in democratic societies during covid?
Do not take my word for...perhaps a recent post from the World Economic Forum blog itself..."Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy, And Life Has Never Been Better…"
Thanks, but no. Free Kyrie.