The First Amendment does not protect you from:
- Criticism: If you’re a comedian who makes a bad rape joke, people are allowed to point out that you’re not funny as well as an asshole.
- Shame: If you tweet something racist about President Obama on your public Twitter account that’s connected to your first and last name, people are allowed to say that is bad.
- The Right to Anonymity: If you take creepy photos of women without their consent and post them on Reddit, people are allowed to try and figure out who you are and post your information on the internet. No one is entitled to anonymity. It’s up to you whether to make it easy for people to find you.
- Mockery: If you put yourself out there that means your peers (and news outlets) have the right to LOL and comment.
- Consequences: If you publicly express yourself in a manner that is offensive, hurtful, or just plain dumb, strangers might contact your friends/family/school/employer and tell them what you did. That is not infringing on your right to free speech; it’s pointing out how you choose to exercise that right. Like the rest of the federal constitution, the First Amendment protects us from the government, not from private companies, which may be able to fire or otherwise punish you for stuff you say, even if it’s outside of work. The laws protecting the free speech of private employees vary from state to state, aside from specifically protected speech like labor organizing. Here are some guidelines for public employees and students.
Yep. Free speech doesn’t mean you are free to be an asshole with no consequence. If you dish it out, be prepared to take it.
shake it out.
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// from theviraltruth
the reason i have next to no respect for pro-lifers isn’t because i don’t respect that everybody has a right to their opinion it’s because there’s a difference between saying ”i don’t like that and i wouldn’t do it” and saying ”i don’t like that and nobody should be allowed to do it because i obviously have the right to dictate what you do with your body”
(via fuckingrapeculture)
// from alexandraskingston
Plan B prevents a pregnancy from happening. No pregnancy means no abortion. Pro-lifers are against Plan B. Pro-lifers attack something that prevents abortions. Much like they attack Sex Ed and condoms.
(via fuckingrapeculture)
// from liberalsarecool
Unnecessary “fillers” in our speech. I’d rather have “like” than up-talking, though (if we had to choose one, that is). Ewwww, up-talking. Then again, a combination of the two would render me homicidal maniac.
yes, colloquial speech is stupid
discourse particles are stupid
quotative particles are stupid
fillers are stupid
lower registers of speech = stupid!!!!!!woah aaa/
Like, did you ever notice? That, like, the speech patterns people, like, think are stupid? Are, like, commonly associated with, like, women?
And, like, there’s this thing? Where, like, women aren’t supposed to be, like, assertive? So they, like, qualify their speech? Because, like, we’re not supposed to, like, stand by our opinions?
1) humiliate women so they don’t feel qualified to speak authoritatively about anything
2) humiliate women for speaking in such a way that reflects how you treat her
3) laugh, you are superior because you don’t use words like “like.” It isn’t as if being a huge stupid asshole has ever made you worse than a woman who speaks with verbal tics.
Holy shit
Reblogging because the “Acadamy of Linguistic Awarness” spelled “academy” and “awareness” wrong on what may be the most pretentious (and unnecessary) poster I’ve ever seen.
(via fuckingrapeculture)
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// from coffeeandconlangs
Well, shake it up, baby, now
Twist and shout
(Source: kevindolenz, via ihateconoroberst)
// from kevindolenz
TRIGGER WARNING
This is a Scottish anti-rape PSA that is a direct response to blaming a rape victim for dressing like a slut. What do you think? Is it effective?
(via fuckyeahfeminists)
// from slutshamersonfb
Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people say, ‘slavery was 400 years ago.’ No it very wasn’t. It was 140 years ago…that’s two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That’s how recently you could buy a guy.
Louis C.K. (via 30thcenturyboy)
Sylvester Magee, the (probable) last American born into slavery died in 1971.
The last living child of former American slaves, Mississippi Winn, died in 2010.
Slavery in the territory that is now the United States lasted more than 330 years. We will be 330 years removed from slavery in the year 2195.
(via fishingboatproceeds)
(via stfuconservatives)
// from 30thcenturyboy
Lady gaga “speaks out” against bullying
Macklemore “speaks out” against homophobia
Kanye “goes on a rant” about racism.
Kanye “goes on a rant” about George Bush.
Coded language don’t really be coded tho.
Nicki Minaj “goes on a rant” about sexism.
Oop oop oopity oop did someone drop a bunch of truth over here?
(via fuckingrapeculture)
// from thirstingaintdead
→ Watch all five parts of James Gandolfini on Inside The Actor's Studio
From 2004.James Lipton: “Finally Jim, if Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say at the pearly gates?”
James Gandolfini: “Take over for a while, I’ll be right back.”
// from distractedbyshinyobjects
I love when rabbleprochoice reblogs me.
// from karasratworld
