SAN FRANCISCO / Supervisors prohibit prejudiced remarks / Resolution follows comments about pregnant worker. They are all for freedom of speech, as long as it the right speech and they approve of it and, by gosh, no one is offended. The SF commissioners passed a resolution that bans public speech. "The intent of this resolution is to make a clear statement that discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, weight, height or place of birth will not be tolerated in San Francisco city government," This all started because someone said that a pregnant woman was not capable of managing the department of insptections. Notice that they did not defend her ability, but went straight to the speech ban. If I were the person in question, I'd feel like the commissioners made a very negative statement about my qualificatons. I bet, the lady, pregnat or not, is fully qualified to run the department.
In other words, if we don't like it, it is banned. Yessir, doesn't sound a bit like censoring freedom of speech. Hat tip to George Orwell and Tongue Tied.
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