Educators disciplined over Charlie Kirk posts are securing big payouts (nbcnews.com)

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It's pretty wild how anyone thought they have standing to fire / reprimand people for this. It's pretty clear cut free speech.

Especially from, supposedly, the people crying about cancel culture and lack of free speech.

Recognizing an Appeal/Argument/Deferral to Authority fallacy can secure you a lot of leverage in society

basically it looks like this:

when you don’t like something and an authority also doesn’t like something, you agree with anything the authority levies as punishment

but

was it within the parameters of what that authority can levy?

was it even the accurate authority to levy anything?

if you are not mentally or emotionally capable of answering that question, then the person affected likely can both reverse the punishment as well as harm the authority for acting at all because it should be pretty clear and citable how that authority’s actions fit within the governing system

We went through years and years of one side being told that it's okay that they're getting selectively silenced for relatively mainstream and popular views, since after all it's corporations doing it and not the government. The very term "free speech" was corrupted into "freeze peach" as a form of mockery and the entire idea was denigrated.

But now that the shoe is on the other foot, literal advocacy for political murder has to be protected (and rounded off to "criticism" in media ledes), apparently.