Fuckin’ amen, Randy.
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You excluded the most important part of that sentence. The part that explains the law:
The states that have passed legislation making it illegal for state agencies to work with companies that boycott Israel include…
There’s no law stopping you as a citizen from boycotting, or recommending boycotting a business. This law targets business boycotts exclusively.
I guess business owners and government workers, who are all citizens themselves, don’t have Constitutional rights any more. Yay?
You can act and voice your opinion as a private citizen, even if you own a business or work for the government. The law affects state funding from businesses that boycott investments.
The state may not penalize people for free speech. Are you arguing that exempting people from state work for exercising protected free speech does not count as penalizing?
… exempting people from state work for exercising protected free speech …
that’s not correct, you are still allowed to have a voice as an individual. However it does prevent you or your highest level boss from speaking positively about BDS using their company (and companies are people). ALSO it puts pressure on the work environment to not be out of line and talk about it.
How do you make enforce deciding not to buy from somewhere illegal?
It’s a free speech matter. You are allowed to not buy stuff, you aren’t allowed to say you aren’t buying stuff because of a boycott.
More than I expected! Wow!
Stay awesome Vermont!
Weird. All I saw on the map was fascism. Let me get my readers. Huh, still fascism.
have passed legislation making it illegal for state agencies to work with companies that boycott Israel
How deep is israel in US’ ass exactly?
Balls deep
“Boycotting israel” =/= “opposing a genocide”
Also “Boycotting israel” =/= “anti semitism”
It depends on if it’s one of the rallies where they chant about “death to Jews” or not…
Seems illegal to ban this. Do lawmakers not know the law?
have passed legislation making it illegal for state agencies to work with companies that boycott Israel
Companies and business owners have a right to free speech. These laws deliberately penalize free speech. Ergo, these laws are wildly and brazenly Unconstitutional.
Stand up and sing that bit about the land of the free
“What? The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy”
Zack de la Rocha
(That’s the part you meant, right?)
“states where boycotting Israel is illegal” is a sensationalist lie. The article says what these laws actually do
have passed legislation making it illegal for state agencies to work with companies that boycott Israel
So it’s all about contracts. That’s still bad but it’s nowhere near as bad as the headlines implies. A law making it illegal to boycott Israel would be laughably unconstitutional.
I think laughably unconstitutional seems to be what the scotus is on track to say is perfectly ok, so I think it’s the constitution that is laughable at this point.
