Over the past few weeks, I've seen a lot of news stories about important higher ups at various big businesses getting ousted from the company for comments they've made/things they've done. Ranging from Mozilla's CEO being removed for support California's Prop 8 to, more recently, the Clippers owner Donald Sterling's comments over race. I have no problem with them being removed for these things at all. Actually, I support it. What I'm writing about is right-wing America's recoil to these happenings. I remember, while driving to or from Florida for spring break(sorry, I can't really remember which), conservative champion and my dad's knight in shining armor, Rush Limbaugh, treated these removals from office as a sort of radical left-wing fascist uprising. His argument was that free speech had been attacked by the left because it did not fall in line with their ideology. He went on to make comments about how, seeing as Obama at one point was not pro-marriage equality, and yet he wasn't attacked or ousted, that this is some sort of liberal conspiracy or movement to just eventually take over America and arrest those who disagree with our philosophy.
Have I ever mentioned that, given the opportunity, I would beat the living hell out of Rush Limbaugh? Like in a "no consequences" type of situation. Whatever.
What I think conservatives of Limbaugh's type seem to ignore or be blissfully ignorant of the simple fact that, in a publicly owned company, the right lies within the people to make choices regarding who runs the company. If the people do not want Mozilla's CEO to support an agenda of anti-equality, then so be it
Let's not forget that the expressing of these opinions is in fact free speech, and that the choice of removal is made within a board of trustees, who do not have to listen to the public
But to hell with the truth, right?
Right
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