In Reply to: RE: On the other hand, posted by Analog Scott on April 7, 2015 at 22:10:46:
David Duke was a politician. He served as a state representative and ran for several other political offices including POTUS. He's also a white separatist/supremist and an anti-semite. Can a Jewish African-American business owner who discovers an employee is a follower of Duke and has been distributing anti-black/white separatist/anti-semitic pamphlets after work urging people to vote for David Duke fire him/her, or is the biz owner required to employ people who are working towards his societal demise? Would you mail a protest letter to the businessman if he fired that employee?
A Ukranian-American owns a grocery store whose clientele is predominantly fellow Ukranian-Americans who believe Russia's actions in eastern Ukraine amount to disgusting thuggery and a clear violation of international law and their homeland's sovereignty. He - as well as his clientele - discovers his capable night manager has been tweeting exactly what the pianist tweeted. The store's Ukranian-American former clientele now boycott the store and the grocery store is losing so much money it is on the verge of bankruptcy. You would say that grocery store owner is required to continue employing the night manager and if you shopped at that store you'd protest if the store owner fired him?
As you can no doubt surmise I could provide many more similar scenarios. Its yet to be determined if the so-called "religious freedom" acts a number of states have passed will stand.
Of course I realize this pianist doesn't inject her political views into her performances. But artists who have done that and/or expressed certain views outside of their gig paid a price for it. I believe the Smothers Brothers won their case against CBS in the end, but their show was cancelled, and IIRC CBS was not required to re-hire them (though strangely enough, they later did just that). Bill Maher was fired, and IIRC Dan Rather's exit from CBS was, ahh, "mutually agreed" - to mention a few.
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Follow Ups
- Its a tricky issue. - Rick W 10:03:06 04/08/15 (2)
- RE: Its a tricky issue. - Analog Scott 16:31:48 04/08/15 (0)
- RE: Its a tricky issue. - rbolaw 16:00:12 04/08/15 (0)