Ellen K. Pao, the former CEO of social news aggregation site Reddit, shared a horribly derogatory message she presumably received in order to try to paint those who believe in free speech with the same broad brush.
Apparently, Pao believes that if you’re a “free-speecher,” a term that she seemingly wants to make sound derogatory itself, you just want to say racist things without getting in trouble.
At the end of the day, the free-speechers really just want to be able to use racist slurs. CW: racism, immaturity, stupidity, and even more racism and extreme stupidity pic.twitter.com/tn9RgJK4jZ
— Ellen K. Pao (@ekp) April 5, 2022
In an ironic twist, she also claims that they “really don’t care about sharing new ideas or encouraging freedom other than the freedom to harass other people off the platform,” despite this being a tactic of those who oppose free speech.
They really don’t care about sharing new ideas or encouraging freedom other than the freedom to harass other people off the platform
— Ellen K. Pao (@ekp) April 5, 2022
Twitter wasn’t about to let her get away with her intellectual laziness, however:
This you? pic.twitter.com/RXO9YKJwuB
— Prince of All Satans (@PenitusVox) April 6, 2022
This is a very ‘first world’ privileged perspective. Where I’m from, we really need free speech to, you know, express our dissent. It’s a pretty fundamental right that people have died for and continue to die for.
— Delme Cupido (@delme_cupido) April 6, 2022
Trade-offs, lady.
You don’t get the free speech for free. The cost for free speech is hearing the speech you don’t like, no matter how abhorrent.
But the cost for not having free speech is expensive too.
— g_the0ry (@g_the0ry) April 6, 2022
I think it’s a bit of an exaggeration — just a bit — to proclaim the only reason people believe in free speech is they want to spout adolescent racist slurs.
I believe that, historically speaking, this concept has a somewhat broader and more substantive history than this. https://t.co/mTuyEdyUDm
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 6, 2022
“the free speechers really just want this” – countless millions of people aren’t a monolith and it’s infantile to reduce a complex issue to something so simpleminded
— Douglas (@CalbarFFC) April 6, 2022
This position really is a non-starter. The point of free speech is ensuring everyone can express themselves. And yes, “everyone” includes the seedier section of the population. Populations of countries contain the entire spectrum of ideologies, just simple reality.
— deceased frog (⚡️, ⚒) (@deadlinky) April 6, 2022
“Free-speecher” is a bad thing now FYI https://t.co/AIyoPw2Ad1 pic.twitter.com/0VZwP7BaHJ
— Thinkball (@AtypicalSheep) April 7, 2022
She was ok with 10s of 1000s of racist misogynistic fart jokes while she made her millions at Reddit tho. https://t.co/9PyyPZyCMm
— TRon SwansonBarker (@wrongnowshutup2) April 7, 2022
Free-speechers! https://t.co/jOV661dizV pic.twitter.com/kQGfuoxNT3
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) April 6, 2022
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This joke of a woman really makes me angry that I shed my blood, and watched friends die, to give her the right to say something that obscene. Without free speech, this country turns into her homeland and favorite totalitarian state, China, with no free speech. I am using my free speech, which I fought for, to tell her to go fornicate with herself.
She doesn’t believe in free speech… she believes in government controlled speech… just like when she lived in Red China.
If this is the case then we need to rewind back to the 60s when we were told we had to tolerate all the BULLS**T coming from the communist POSs because our constitution allows for FREEDOM OF SPEECH no matter how much it may offend. they should all be silenced per their own beliefs in not allowing free speech. How’s that miss chinese communist POS?!!!!!!
IN 1970 I was in New Haven and there happened to be an anti war rally, with thousands in attendance. I was having lunch at a fast food place. By chance, I had a booth to myself in a crowded restaurant. 2 men asked if they could join. I said fine. They happened to be Abby Hoffman and Tom Hayden. We started a conversation and it rapidly seemed that we had diametrically opposing viewpoints on the war, but rather than shut each other off, we continued to talk.After talking for about 1/2 hour it turned out our viewpoints had a lot of overlap, like none of us wanting to fight a war to protect big rubber interests, which is all Vietnam was.
The object of this story is that we all agreed that more conversation, not less, is the key to solving problems, and finding out that many of those things we think we disagree on, we really don’t Both of those would be totally dismayed with the left wing totalitarians, like this female dog, trying to shut down and demonize free speech.
China owns Reddit
It’s hard to believe how stupid some people are??
If she has a degree?
She needs to give it back, or burn it!;;
Another communist Chinese dictating to her new country what she believes, not the standards and beliefs of the country she has come to snd brings her communist ways.
She just stereotyped millions of people who believe in free speech, called them names said they were ignorant with her own free speech. Incredibly obtuse.
At the end of the day Ellen doesn’t want to have to listen to anything she disagrees with. This racist business is just a smokescreen because she can’t come up with a cogent argument against actual free speech.
But she is able to look the other way when it comes to sex trafficking. Speaks volumes to her character, or lack thereof.
But she has no problem with the way China treats its minorities, like the Uigers.
Look at that smug puss of hers. Any one who attempts to cancel free speech or censor someone should have the same done to them.