Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Fanatical Palo Alto Leftist abuses elderly Jew
I don’t want to take sides in the Make America Great Again debate, but a guy wearing a MAGA hat in a Palo Alto Starbucks shouldn’t be subjected to yelling by a woman who disagrees with his point of view.
The instigator, Rebecca Parker Mankey, went further than yelling and chasing the MAGA hat-wearing-man. She went on social media to call him names and asking people to “dox” him, Internet slang for publishing his contact information with malicious intent.
Mankey lost her job at a business in the California Avenue district and has resigned from a local Democratic Party club. She’s also been bombarded with threats online after conservative websites picked up the story.
To his credit, the victim of this attack — a 74-year-old Jewish man who only wants to go by his first name, Victor — feels Mankey shouldn’t have lost her job, and he doesn’t want anybody to threaten her.
One of the longstanding principles of our republic is that people have the right to free speech — and free speech means being able to wear a hat that represents your views. It’s an idea enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
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democrats claim to be the most tolerant but only when you agree with ,then instead of calm discussion they will try to out shout you and destroy you. they claim conservatives are intolerant and violent but when was the last time one of they acted like this woman? it is said if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it even when they know it's a lie. this is what the democrats are hoping for
This story is one of true justice though, The person at fault here experienced the effects that were expected to occur to the one being attacked.
Perhaps this will give pause to the next person expecting to do this but probably not, the hatred shown in that video isn't the kind that is amenable to introspection.
Free speech is not the freedom to say whatever you want without consequence or repercussion.
It is the freedom to say whatever you like without recrimination or consequence BY THE STATE.
If I wear an extreme organisation's t-shirt then I expect people to react to that.
If I wear a political hat I expect some people will react to that.
The issue here is not that someone disliked someone else's hat.
The issue here is that this woman did not simply dislike someone else's hat but she decided that her right to express her dislike of the hat was more valid than the man's right to wear the hat.
When political discourse degenerates to that level - when some people believe their viewpoint is the ONLY viewpoint - then we are on the brink of disaster.
Is it really so hard to accept that if you want the right to speak you must allow others to do so too?
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