The Essex Parks and Recreation Department has fired an 18-year-old lifeguard for exercising his right to free speech. TrueNorth Reports that Alex Katsnelson read prepared remarks at an Essex public CRT discussion event, and it looks like his observations were not the approved narrative.
Shortly after exercising his right to hold his own opinion and to express it to the powers that be,
“…he was promptly fired by the Essex Parks and Recreation Department. Initially, the contrived cause was “concerns around your ability to adhere to … core values,” but it was switched to “perceived threats” that “cause legitimate concern around your ability to equitably look out for the safety of everyone who attends our pools.” This is CRT in action — shame and attack anyone who dares challenge its race-based tenets, even teenage lifeguards.”
What took all the fun out of the publicly-funded Essex Parks and Recreation Department? According to the reporting:
While all of your comments are concerning, several of the comments you made publicly stand out — the first being: “the residents of Essex and Westford will not stand idly by as anti-whiteness invades our school system.” The second being: “what you people plan to do is redistribute opportunity based solely on individual identity.” The third being: “This is why we have fifth graders coming home and saying they wish they were black.”
No free speech for you, one year, maybe ever. And no job. And I think they feel like the kid probably won’t sue them, so they can just make stuff up and ignore his rights. You can’t possibly watch the pool with that sort of mindset.
He can’t have an opinion about the school district adopting a curriculum and a culture that demands that the92% of white Americans living in Essex shouldn’t be subject to systemic race-shaming or bullying.
Is there an official racial test for public jobs in Essex, Vermont?
And while the State can compel the speech of public employees during work, this is not permitted “after hours.”
That’s amusing.
The primary progressive objection to banning race-shaming in New Hampshire is the fear of having your speech silenced, and here we have it, not during work, but anytime you speak, which is why the Left doesn’t want you to prevent them from teaching this sort of doctrine.
They need future generations not just to ignore their rights but help them to deny the rights of others.
This is just more of that, and it needs to meet with significant legal, and public (political and electoral) pushback or they won’t stop until all your rights are dead.
