I mean, really! Say something injudicious and the on-line lynch mob will contact your employer and try to get you the sack. Fuck me, but that’s pure evil.
The BBC then asks…
But when does this idea of online justice cross the line to harassment?
Er, immediately it starts, you cretin. This behaviour is never right. There is never a place for it in a civilised society. It is pure unadulterated evil. It is vigilantism, it is the lynch-mob. The lynch-mob is always wrong.
Employers could stop this in its tracks immediately by responding to the complainants and telling them to fuck off and mind their own business. But no in our “enlightened” society, doubtless they are as afraid of the mob as were those football clubs that thought about employing Ched Evans. The mob rules now. Be afraid…
One vigilante who’s not remaining anonymous is Logan Smith. He’s 27, lives in North Carolina and runs the twitter handle @YesYoureRacist. The idea is pretty simple – Logan starts his day by searching on Twitter for the phrase “I’m not racist but…” and then retweets the comments that he deems offensive to his 55,000 followers.
What a piece of shit. This creature has nothing better to do than trawl the net looking for victims to harass. I don’t use the word often, but cunt is the only valid description for this pumped up, self-important popinjay. Who the fuck put him in charge?
One of the commenters gets it.
As an employer if I was contacted about an employees behaviour outside of work I would ignore it unless it directly mentioned my business. People make mistakes, people do things they shouldn’t. We have laws to handle such occurences if you think it is illegal then contact the relevant authorities. To try and act as some moral arbiter is arrogant in the extreme.
Indeed. That arrogance has been fostered by the leftist establishment that has tried to bring about thought-crime (and succeeded, frankly). Arrogance sums up scum such as Logan Smith who just can’t leave people alone to speak as they see fit. You see, it’s none of his damned business what people say – they weren’t saying it to him, after all.
God, but I hate these people. Words do not adequately express the contempt I feel for them – arrogant, petulant, self-righteous, preening jackanapes and arseholes so full of their right-on credentials and so quick to condemn, to the point of costing someone their livelihood. Words cannot conjure up just how despicable these people really are.
This has been going on for years. Look a group called “The Honourables”. They routinely try to get people sacked if they dare to say anything “The Honourables” find offensive. They have even falsely outed people as paedophiles to try to shut them up. Their leader, Simon Just, was arrested last year harassment, but was not charged because the police screwed up the investigation which meant his offence became time disbarred.
The offence police are real, and they are coming for everyone.
A very short article, LR, yet striking the point on the nose. I do direct people to this sort of article, not linking but talking and showing. That went down well in the pub.
Yet employers will sack people over such slight complaints. Particularly big corporate concerns. Maybe if these (Dis)’Honorables’ got a dose of their own vigilantism (lost job, family and friends smeared and harassed) they wouldn’t be so keen. As for ‘online justice’ it just isn’t. About as far from justice as you can get and still be in the same galaxy.
On the other hand, I have the awful feeling it would only make the nasty little offence seeking gobshites worse.
“Employers could stop this in its tracks immediately by responding to the complainants and telling them to fuck off and mind their own business. “
It seems that employers are indeed capable of doing this, though I think it must help to be one of the favoured ones…
In this case, he does deserve the sack. Not due to free speech, but as an employer, would I really want this viper coming through my door every day? Also, how could he represent anyone other than a fellow extremist nutter? Would you want him?
If Logan Smith did that to me, I would make it my life’s mission to hunt him down and even the score……….and not in a nice way!
The other day a friend and I were watching one of those daytime TV court shows. The plaintiff was a young woman who worked as a reporter. The head of the company for which she worked was the defendant – who, by the way, said right out front that the plaintiff was a great reporter and had always done her job excellently and responsibly. The plaintiff had a party at her home for some of her work colleagues. They all had some drinks, got a bit silly and started doing irreverent impressions of people at work, including the head of the company. The plaintiff’s boyfriend took cell phone videos of a few of the impressions that he thought were particularly hilarious. He sent them to his girlfriend, the plaintiff, so she could enjoy them later. The next day at work, the plaintiff was working in a room with the head of the company, and when she left the room she forgot her cell phone. The company head picked it up, turned it on, saw his name on a message, looked at the message and saw the video of the impressions, one of which was of him. He was – gasp! – offended! and fired the young woman. She took him to court because she felt it was unfair of him to have fired her for some irreverence at a private party. My friend and I were completely on her side. The head of the company invaded her privacy by reading a message on her cell phone. And so what if a handful of people were doing silly impressions of work colleagues at an private party? Well, the head of the company whined about how “offensive” he found the impressions, especially the one of him, in which he had been called, horror of horrors, a “milquetoast.” I was sure that the judge would laugh him right out of the room, point out that he had invaded the young woman’s privacy, and suggest that he grow a thicker skin. But the judge was on his side, never even mentioned the obvious invasion of privacy, and chastised the plaintiff for her “offensive” comments. Her case was dismissed. So a young woman lost her job for being irreverent at a private party in her own home.
Perhaps she should have gone to court for justice, instead of going on a fake court TV show?
Indeed. A tribunal would probably have found in her favour.