Seems like a first amendment violation to me.
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They’re just making it worse. People are not going to change their view. It will soon come to a boiling point.
They do nothing for anyone of any substance whatsoever.
Sure, there are assholes all over corporate America using AI to do their jobs - I’m sure they care. But even they don’t want this in their backyard if you ask them.
All over corporate Canada too.
A literal boiling point if we don’t hurry.
If you are the parents of those goons, shame on you.
You spawned evil.
Land of the free /s
…home of the slave
Whoever told you that-
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I think they were quoting RATM’s Know your Enemy
What? The “land of the free”?
Whoever told you that is your enemyYes, that seems to fit. Thanks for clarifying :). I’ll delete my snark
The teacher’s lawyers should consider joining the NBA considering how this would be a slam dunk in the court.
Commissioners warned those in attendance against disruptive behavior, including clapping, snapping or rude comments. Lux Claridge and several others clapped in support of speakers opposing the Flint Hills Digital Campus data center. After commissioners issued a final warning, Lux Claridge continued to clap, leading to his arrest.
I wasn’t there and I have never been to a city meeting, how bad is it to ask for people to not clap? They did give him a final warning.
How often do they tell people not to clap? If it’s only for stuff like this then it’s pretty telling what their motives are.
That request is common for things like graduation, where they don’t want some grads to get huge responses from family, or friends, which interrupt the flow, and possibly leak over to the next grads moment. What if you get two or three grad families celebrating in a row, stepping on each other’s celebrations, then they start arguing? Or it turns into a popularity contest, and some kids get wild applause while others get none? Or once they start applauding for some, they start booing at others?
You could see where it could get out of hand in a situation like that. But this is a public meeting, and the purpose is to allow people to speak their minds, and applauding in agreement is speech as well. Shutting down speech in a public government forum for speech is incongruous, inappropriate, and most of all ILLEGAL.
He will file a lawsuit, and win. I hope they pay off their house, go on a nice vacation, and still have enough to put in their retirement fund. And I hope every member of that council loses their seat.
Demanding people not utilize their free speech? Yeah, that doesn’t fly in a public meeting in America. It’s kind of the point of the meeting.
The Council claimed that there were a lot of speakers, so they prohibited applause to save time. People clapped anyway, because Fuck You, it’s in the Constitution. The Council got really mad, and started threatening. Then some people stopped clapping, snapping, etc., and started using deaf sign language and waving their hands. No noise, no interruptions, no impeding the flow of speakers, no slowing down the process.
The Council even got mad at that, which indicated that the didn’t really want to stop applause for time considerations, they just didn’t want those attending to be able to show support for each other, which is truly insidious.
When I was a band member in high school, we took on the school board because they did something unfair to the band, so we went to the school board meetings, where I personally looked at each member of the School Board, and told each one that they would lose their next election (except one who had two kids in the band, and was on our side).
The next election, the band hit the streets, knocked on doors, and all got replaced except our guy. We warned the School Board, and they responded disrespectfully, because we were ONLY students.
When the people go to the trouble of attending a meeting, writing a little speech, and confronting their fear of public speaking, they are dead serious, and you’d better listen to what they have to say. Or else.
Thanks, that is a lot more information than what was provided in the article.
Classic thought crime
Whoa there, teachers just teach people how to think. They don’t actually get to think for themselves…
Clapping at random shit is as American as apple pie.
What was he using to clap or what
this will just make things worse for the people in power, the moment any of these demonstration turns violent towards the people, the dam wi- sorry, SHOULD brake, and they’ll be targeted.
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Yeah totally a mentally disabled person for standing up against something…
Do you own a spine?
I may disagree in what they say, but I’ll troll to death their right to say it.
The cop?
