Brickbat: Thin Skin

In Florida, the Sarasota County School Board has banned criticism of individual board members during public comments in its meetings. Vice Chairwoman Jane Goodwin cut off the microphone and had police escort out speakers who criticized members during a recent meeting. Goodwin said there would be "no public assaults and no public attacks" on elected officials. She defined an "assault on a board member" as "anything critical" of  that board member.

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[Inigo Montoya]

Once you accept the notion that negative “speech is violence,” it’s not a surprise that the growing restrictions on freedom of speech are being extended to criticizing government. Did anyone think it would remain limited to stuff like criticizing CRT? The whole point was to make it unacceptable to complain about those in power.

[Earth Skeptic]

More to the point: once you elevate your biases, ideologies, and party to religious doctrine, you can't tolerate challenges. Even questions are heresy.

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[Ajsloss]

"speech is violence"...

I've also heard that silence is violence.

[Stuck in California]

Yeah, if they were just a little bit more clear I could make them happy.

Right?

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[Fist of Etiquette]

"This is a press conference. The last thing I want to do is answer a lot of questions."

[m4019597]

The cops who escort people out of these meetings should be fired and expelled from polite society. They have no place in America.

Instead the cops should be saying “No. fuck you. This is a public meeting and you will tolerate criticism or leave. I won’t remove citizens who exercise free speech rights.”

[R Mac]

It’s become quite clear that violating your oath to the Constitution is fine, as long as it’s for the right causes.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

I fear that a plurality of citizens see nothing wrong with that.

[MatthewSlyfield]

I fear that a bipartisan super majority of citizens see nothing wrong with that. The only thing they disagree on is what the "right" causes are.

[SMP0328]

Possibly short of summary executions, police will carry out any order given to them. I doubt the police gave even a single thought to free speech. They were told to remove those people, so they did so, like good little drones.

[American Mongrel]

And turn on their union brothers? Cmon man!

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[Don't look at me!]

They are the gods who walk amongst us.

[Chumby]

This is a publicly funded public event.
Those that cannot do, teach. Those that can’t manage that either become an administrator or a union rep.

[The Encogitationer]

Or a consultant, of course.

[Earth Skeptic]

Geez, where does that put some thirty year old gamer, living off of unemployment and COVID checks in their mom's basement?

[Rossami]

Well, this should become a quick lesson in the First Amendment. Unfortunately, it won't end where it needs to - with jail time for the thin-skinned bureaucrat.

[m4019597]

The bureaucrat isn’t putting hands on anyone to remove them.

It’s the police at the meeting who should be in jail for obeying unlawful orders.

[markm23]

Would you give the Godfather a pass on ordering a hit, but execute the hit man? The one who gave the orders is at least as much to blame as the one who followed them. Both should be in prison, but the bureaucrat first.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

"God created school boards; this was for practice. Then he made idiots."

Mark Twain

[Earth Skeptic]

Correct quote (but still on point):

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

[WillDD]

Agreed. School board is essentially pre-K for politicians.

[mad.casual]

And I'm sure the criticisms of board members were of the exceedingly personal type of complaints like "She has manly hands!", "She eats steak with ketchup!", and "Her tweets are mean!" and not the topically-relevant "Bitches like you are spending my money to test my kids so you can kick them out of school, so I can watch them at home while you get paid." variety.

[rreally]

Now that you mention it, the thin-skinned, psychotic, unconstitutional reaction to criticism does remind me of your Orange One.

Imagine how much more tolerable he would have been to the voting public, and presumably how much more creepily devoted you could be to him, if he had a scintilla of self control.

Oh well.

[mad.casual]

Nothing screams "I'm relevant! Please value me!" like taking the side of facetious arguments that were tangential to the point.

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[Unicorn Abattoir]

It's surprising that the lowest tier of elected officials have had the power to waive the 1st Amendment bestowed upon them.

[The Jeffersonian]

"Screw your freedoms."

[Longtobefree]

She defined an "assault on a board member" as "anything critical" of that board member.

So Humpty Dumpty was disguised as Karen?

[Longtobefree]

Fun fact:
Sarasota is a city south of Tampa on Florida’s Gulf Coast that was once the winter home of the Ringling Brothers Circus.

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