What was the possible messages and what was the intended message?
The intended message was you should not send out or have a political opinion if you work for a public institution such as a school, but it is okay for a public licensed institution to have a biased opinion, like Fox News.
But we all have biased opinions, but first a disclaimer!
It is bad for a small business to disclose a political opinion as it could hurt sales. Therefore I will always oppose political opinions expressed by a company I represent.
But in this blog I represent me. By my friends I have been called a extreme liberal, extreme conservative, a libertarian and a pragmatist. I like the last one the best!
Culture, education and experience shape our beliefs. Or is it propaganda?
I would like to share a story I carefully tell because three of us still alive.
This story is about a very diverse group in a dorm room at the University of Wisconsin. The discussion was about propaganda that was then used by the Chinese communist Government.
The participants were a Catholic of mixed decent, A Methodist of Scandinavian decent, a Jew, a Hindu Chinese from ---- ---- and a to become Jet Pilot who thought he might be God.
The discussion was about the Christian religion as a product of propaganda with the the Jew leading that argument. The Jew challenged us to participate in a experiment. We each would spread a rumor that some disaster was going to occur on a specific date. We would spread this rumor at fraternities and other dorms where we had connections.
In three weeks this rumor was published in the Milwaukee Journal followed by followup story(s) in other Wisconsin newspapers. The rumor worked!
The followup to this true story is the Jewish students argument was how Hitler came to power in Germany with the use of rumors.
We in the US must be on guard on any limitation of free speech. And let me make it clear that I have not repeated this story because I always believed spreading false anonymous rumors is wrong. But a recent Supreme Court ruling has declared anonymous spending of any speech is O'K (Citizens United v. FEC). This has vindicated me.
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