Freedom of Speech in American. not my own.
Very interesting story. and indicative. A New York-based teacher, Deborah Morse-Canningham, spoke on her FB page about what privileges are. “Privileges are when you wear shoes for $200 without working anywhere in your life. Or when living on a benefit, you buy Beats headphones for $300. When you don’t pay for mobile, when in social housing you don’t have to pay for water and electricity, when rising taxes don’t affect the amount of food on your family’s table. “Privileges are when you go to protest against everything you don’t like, without thinking about having to take a break at work, when you can have as many children as you want, regardless of income, just sending them to a free kindergarten.”
It was a general, unfathomable reasoning. In this text, the words “negroes”, “African Americans” and “black” were never heard. What do you think she was accused of? I guess it was racism, of course. Those whose lives matter immediately recognized themselves in this group portrait. And very offended. They don't know the Russian proverb - it's not necessary to pen on the mirror, when the birth is wrong.
And immediately a non-reverse punitive mechanism was launched. Deborah is still a teacher, but it seems to be a short time. There is already a petition demanding her dismissal – ten thousand signatures.
The mayor of New York City, De Blasio, is personally and deeply outraged by such overwhelming racism and has given a team to conduct an internal investigation. I wonder what will be investigated? Will they study her entire internet history under a microscope? They will go into her genealogy – and suddenly there is someone from the Ku Klux Klan or from the Communists. That is to say, another demonstrative, educational public mess is being prepared. And the personal fate of the clever, remarkable teacher Deborah Morse-Canningham does not care anyone. In modern America, there is no force that could protect it. There are no such lawyers accused. Remember the Chinese Hunweibins.