Fei-Hung said:
Idon't think it's about getting fired for believing the wrong thing as much as getting fired for how he went about it.
Additionally, it is also about how bad your belief might be. What if your belief is that all women should be slaves or raping people is fine and pedophiles should be free to do as they please?
You can be racist, sexiest, homophobic etc but you can't expect to be that at someone else's expense.
Last but not least, if there is no shame in what you are doing and you are confident you are doing the right thing, then why do it from the shadows? |
I honestly don't see how he went about it is such a big deal. The internet is filled, and some might even claim that it is meant for uncensored humour and mischievous expressions excused by a lack of producing direct consequences (as in 1st line direct, not that someone reacted to something and then that person did something and attributes it to the object of his/her reaction). I suppose this is completely subjective, but I believe that personal beliefs and the beliefs of a company should be 2 separate things that don't inherently represent each other. I'm not sure why many people don't see it that way, but I've thought we're always in search of someone "responsible" to take the blame and therefore we look at their "enablers".
The beliefs you lusted are attrocious, yes. But I'd like an absolutist free speech. Anything can be thought and said (provided in the correct channels, ofc. Won't someone think of the children xD). As long as those speeches don't try to engage in direct action as in "kill all cops", "kill all jews" and the examples you gave, I think it should be permitted. But the beliefs of this man aren't like this, and I might bet that most trolls that say those things don't actually believe it and they say it just to, well, troll us.
Being sexist, sexist, etc, shouldn't come at someone else's expenses, I agree. But I don't agree in that the expense comes along with the speech. It's up to the receiver of the message to give weight to it. Therefore the famous phrase "don't feed the troll". But, of course, there are exceptions where it can get too extreme, but none expressed by a political party (as far as I'm aware of).
As for your last paragraphs; for fear of retaliation, of damage. People have been fired from saying the "wrong things" on their personal social media profile or writting the"wrong article" like the journalist that dared to say that Hillary Clinton might be sick at the Huffington Post. People go anonymous when sharing ideologies, ideas, when their integrity and their life is at risk. Most extreme cases of people choosing to go public and receiving retaliaton, are murders in civil wars and dictatorships.
