I know Paddy. That event is in my backyard every year.
In case anyone else needed reason to think cancel culture was a self-destructive pogrom...
There is nothing wrong with what he said. The issue was what he didn't say. People are taking the absence of him opening first by condemning the Hamas murders as the equivalent of an endorsement of what Hamas did. That's what's particularly moronic.
When we have people throwing hissy fits, taking their toys and their Big Tech companies away, because they're vilely offended because someone didn't say something, then we're endorsing a system of coerced speech.
Paddy should have been smart enough to know that's how he should have framed it in the first place. But the reaction is as if someone said "Muhammad" without following it up with a "peace be upon him" and that being taken as an anti-Muslim insult.
In case anyone else needed reason to think cancel culture was a self-destructive pogrom...
There is nothing wrong with what he said. The issue was what he didn't say. People are taking the absence of him opening first by condemning the Hamas murders as the equivalent of an endorsement of what Hamas did. That's what's particularly moronic.
When we have people throwing hissy fits, taking their toys and their Big Tech companies away, because they're vilely offended because someone didn't say something, then we're endorsing a system of coerced speech.
Paddy should have been smart enough to know that's how he should have framed it in the first place. But the reaction is as if someone said "Muhammad" without following it up with a "peace be upon him" and that being taken as an anti-Muslim insult.
Peace be upon him.
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