• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    While I have the utmost sympathy for her, if a postal worker is picking and choosing what mail is to be delivered the entire concept of the post office becomes moot.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah. I have very strong political, moral, and ethical opinions.

      I’m also a government employee, and those opinions disappear when I’m performing my duties. I enforce rules I find idiotic all the damn time and let people get away with bullshit that should be illegal. They’re not my rules.

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      5 months ago

      I agree in that it should be a democratically-accountable panel that prevents hate speech from being disseminated through the mail, rather than an individual, but that doesn’t make this individual’s actions wrong.

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        5 months ago

        I think your panel concept sounds like a horrible idea. Have the state look through everyone’s mail and decide if they want to allow your mail through or not? I’m sure that would definitely only work well and wouldn’t be used against the people you designed it to protect.

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          5 months ago

          Private correspondence is different from a hate organization disseminating mass flyers. I would not be in favor of censoring private correspondence.

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            5 months ago

            The thing you should do is crush that hate organization, not screen every flyer that goes through the mail