Last Wednesday, Lux Claridge planned to speak out against a proposed 1,000 acre data center in their town of Emporia, Kansas. They left in handcuffs after a city commissioner ordered them arrested for clapping.
Last Wednesday, Lux Claridge planned to speak out against a proposed 1,000 acre data center in their town of Emporia, Kansas. They left in handcuffs after a city commissioner ordered them arrested for clapping.
At city council or committee meetings the gallery is not allowed to make noise. They are there only to observe.
The gallery was especially noisy at this meeting and was warned to be quiet multiple times. Just because no one is speaking does not mean the gallery is allowed to clap.
You seem to forgot who city council works for.
You like the boot, but the rest of us don’t. Learn to read rooms.
They crave authoritarian violence. The dog whistle is their belief that they’ll be the ones doing the oppression next time, if they lick the boot passionately enough
I know what these bootlickers are. I see them.
That’s fucking stupid, it’s a stupid rule and nonsensical. What, are people not supposed to have reactions to things?
I think it’s just to not disrupt the proceedings. If you want to speak to an issue you can register as a delegation.
I’m reminded of a funny incident during a recent Calgary council meeting where a delegation was asked to stop clapping — they could continue singing, but I guess clapping is against the rules of decorum: https://youtu.be/UQRi4FpEj34 at about 4:55.
My whole point is that if someone is clapping or booing or otherwise reacting to a person speaking and they’re not actively disrupting the speaker it shouldn’t be a problem.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect people to not react or be silent when talking about stuff that impacts them directly and as long as it’s not very clearly outright hate speech or disrupting a speaker then it should be okay.
Rules of decorum are fine and all but when they’re used as a cudgel to silence expression from constituents at a town hall that’s bad.