Chris Alexander
Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

The American people have lost the ability the distinguish between the right to free speech and the absolution of any form of responsibility or accountability for anything you do. We need to reinforce this concept: you have the right to do and say whatever you want; that’s freedom. You will also be held to account for the things you say and do. That’s part of having freedom. If you want to be absolved of responsibility and accountability for the things you say and do, freedom goes away along with that.

When Gen X’ers talk about “millenial entitlement,” this is what we mean. It isn’t that people think they should have everything handed to them on a silver platter without working for it, it’s that people think (wrongly) that they should never be held responsible for the things they themselves say and do. The concept of personal accountability for individual actions is frighteningly absent. The ex-Googler in this account spoke his mind, and for that he didn’t go to jail or get executed. Welcome to free speech.

However, he was held accountable for his words and actions, which is what one should expect when one exercises their right to free speech. If you aren’t ready to accept that, you have choices:

1: Shut your mouth and just keep it all penned up deep, deep down inside you.

2. Examine your own positions and question yourself. People who write manifestos like this have never challenged their own positions — they write them believing they’ll be received as some sort of saint who liberates the idiotic masses from their own well of stupidity.

Lastly, Google, as a company, doesn’t have to hire or retain anyone on staff who doesn’t fit their corporate culture, and this guy doesn’t fit ANY corporate culture, so he got axed. That’s freedom, baby. For all those people suggesting he should be “re-educated” (nice one, little Stalins), sounds like you now have your next mission in life. Good luck to you! But foisting that responsibility onto another group of people/individuals is simply yet another example of everyone wanting to push responsibility away from themselves and onto someone else. Sorry — Google has things to do. They aren’t a social reprogramming service for infinite douchebags.

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