Chopping the Oak

Brendan Eich

 

How dare you?  How dare you propose to exercise what some say is a right to free speech.  Where the hell do you think you are, 18th century America for chrissakes?

You gotta get wise friend.  There are many areas where you best not travel.  Well, I guess that you can go there but you best leave your voice and your thoughts, your opinions and viewpoints, behind.  In fact, don’t just leave them; get rid of them if they don’t line up with mine ok?

Things have a way of catching up to you ya know?  So maybe you didn’t figure anyone would ever find out but we did, we did man.  We never stop lookin’ for slugs like you who think they can hide behind that old bullshit Constitutional crap.  The screen is down man don’t you know it?

When the bullets start flying it sure as hell pays to be on the right end of the gun.  We’re taking aim and we aim to take no prisoners.  All’s fair y’know.  Think I’m kidding?

Hate speech is just that- speech that I hate.  I hate it when you try to speak so just shut up.  And if anything you do or say is something I don’t agree with then we will chop you down.  Who’s we?  We are all those who are not you.  And we hate you but our speech is simply in defense of what you disagree with and, as such, could never be considered as hateful.

Beautiful ain’t it?  We hate what you say or do, express that hate in defense of something that is protected from any speech or actions that we have worked to define as hateful, and then if you try to defend what you said, or your thoughts, or your position, we are able to just simply rack it up as more hate speech.  Game, set, match.  Pardon me while I chuckle at your total ignorance toward the inherent beauty of this new artform.  Folks like you, you’ll never learn.

You don’t get it?  Who cares.

In the end it’s simply the fact that we win.  And if we win then I guess you lose.

You can’t fight it if you can’t win so just get out of the way.

Yeah, okay, we’ll let you resign.  This time anyhow.