rant · moment 21 of 24
Getting Fired for Defending Your Property
from #205 - Well, LA Was Fun | The Tim Dillon Show · #205
4 min
Tim discusses a man fired for saying he'd defend his property from looters, and producer Dick Wolf's condemnation of him, questioning the fairness of losing your livelihood over an opinion.
- Tim posted a black square on Instagram during the BLM moment without understanding what it was, only to learn later the CIA supposedly did it.
- People act like they're brands, constantly performing their beliefs like they're Starbucks instead of human beings.
- Tim mocks celebrities like Ansel Elgort posting about spending the day educating themselves while actually going to the beach, performing activism to avoid being targeted by the mob.
- Businesses paint BLM on their storefronts not out of conviction but out of fear that their windows will be bricked if they don't.
- Corporations are backing widespread agreement with these messages under the implicit threat of violence, which is strange and worth examining.
- Tim acknowledges police brutality is real and reforms are necessary, but still finds it uncomfortable that people lose their jobs for expressing opinions.
- The willingness to fire people and destroy their livelihoods over a single disagreement represents a troubling shift in how society handles dissent.