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In reply to the discussion: Sometimes karma moves fast--transphobic radio hosts in Rochester, NY [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)54. You have a warped view of how things work
This can't be "turned against us" and believing it could be is either concern trolling or severe paranoia.
The hosts started the shaming, and reveled in their own ugliness. They are entitled to have their opinion, but they don't have the right not to be fired if they are offensive to their employer's clients.
i.e. you can't work in retail or medicine or ANY field and call women "sluts" or use racial epithets ( although this is your right to do on your own time, no matter how ill-advised ) and expect that the complaints and/or loss of business will not lead to your eventual termination.
It is way past time to start shaming the cretins among us.
I abhor the cowardice of the timid, the wishy washy, trembling man or woman who will not speak up when wrongs are done, who is too afraid of their image or precious status to speak out for the victimized and the weak and the marginalized.
I find them to be no more than cowards, who won't even fight to help themselves, let alone anyone else or the community in which they live.
You can sit placidly by, chewing the cud, scared out of your wits about some imaginary future backlash of persecution if you wish. But don't you dare tell other people it's "wrong" to call pigs what they are: pigs.
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