The network pulled the show after the Federal Communications Commission chair threatened regulatory action after the host's comments about Charlie Kirk's death.
But you started with “I don’t watch Kimmel.” That is entirely irrelevant in this test.
I am not trying tobe difficult, but so many things online get turned into personal issues reflexively. This one is so huge that to minimize it to preference is to miss the point.
I get that’s not what you may be doing, however, the core institutions important to this country’s identity are right now being dismantled. It’s not about our preferences.
None of this, not one iota, is about what we watch. I see person after person commenting “I don’t watch Kimmel, but…”
Frankly, it could have been censorship of a right wing show like Charlie Kirk and our response should be the same.
It’s not about our preferences. It’s about Freedom of Speech and the articles in the Bill of Rights.
Which is literally why I mentioned there is a real test here.
But you started with “I don’t watch Kimmel.” That is entirely irrelevant in this test.
I am not trying tobe difficult, but so many things online get turned into personal issues reflexively. This one is so huge that to minimize it to preference is to miss the point.
I get that’s not what you may be doing, however, the core institutions important to this country’s identity are right now being dismantled. It’s not about our preferences.
I’ll disagree that fascist speech and the foment of violence should be protected. I’m not cheering what happened to Kirk but not sad about it.
And that is your right.
I also agree with your position, but I believe in the right to speak freely even more vehemently.