Move over Gary Johnson, theres a new idiot in town.
Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen praised a company for firing an employee who had posted all lives matter on her private Facebook page as an example of the free market standing up against systemic racism.
Yes, really.
During a C-SPAN interview, Jorgensen argued that Rosa Parks was discriminated against because, what a lot of people dont realize is that that was a government-owned, government-run bus, and the only way that racism was able to go on for so long was the government was putting it into place.
She then claimed that its harder for private companies to engage in systemic racism because they would go out of business, before celebrating the fact that a woman lost her job for posting all lives matter on her Facebook page.
There was a woman who on her private Facebook this was highly publicized her private Facebook put All Lives Matter, and the company fired her, Jorgensen stated.
And what Id like to make note of she wasnt talking to or wasnt tweeting a coworker, an employee, a customer, a client, anybody like that, and this was her private Facebook, not the company Facebook, and yet the company said OK, we dont tolerate that.'
Maybe someone should point out to Jorgensen that saying all lives matter isnt remotely racist and that disagreeing with this statement is in fact a racist position.
Under her ideal system, woke corporations would feel even more empowered to trample free speech, opening up millions more Americans to be viciously targeted by cancel culture mobs who intimidate and bully companies into policing their employees behavior.
Jorgensen also claimed that private companies cannot discriminate as easily and get off as scot-free as the federal government.
Presumably she missed the last 4 years of rampant social media censorship, which has overwhelming targeted libertarians and conservatives.
No wonder the Libertarian Party is a national joke.
Jorgensen makes Gary Johnson look like a bastion of logic and credibility.