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[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am a huge proponent of free speech personally, and I exercise it regularly. However, I do not believe it is a right to be able to force your speech into places it is not wanted.

Free speech should also include other people's right to be free from your speech, if they so wish. It is not a right to force your speech onto others against their will.

In actual fact, it is only one thing, and that's the letter of the law. Congress shall make no law that infringes. It says nothing about corporations or individuals, who have the right to do as they wish. And frankly, if you want to fuck up some corporations, we'd probably be happy to help with that. Don't listen to conservatives trying to say woke is censorship. It's a lot more complicated than that, as usual.

Feel free to pm me a reply if you'd like to have your say, but rather not engage in public.

[–] Slowy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why don’t you want to engage in public? Just curious, I don’t have any contentious viewpoint to express

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was extending the offer to the person I was replying to. As they were taking heat from several different people, which can be a stressful situation, they rather reasonably decided to stop replying.

In the event that he had something he wished to say to me, but did not want to come back to the thread, I extended an invitation to pm me, if he wished.

That's all. I don't personally need to pm, but thought I'd be polite.

[–] Slowy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh I see, in my app your comment shows up as a top level comment not a direct reply to someone. But that explanation makes sense !