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>>I mean, have you ever heard about Americans getting fired because of supporting protest?

Yes... If you support Libertarian or Conservative things




Instances? The only thing that comes to my mind is Brendon Eich at Mozilla. And even then, it wasn’t so much as being fired as being squeezed out of the CEO slot.


It's been >2 hours and we're still waiting for your examples and/or sources.


Sorry i have a job and can not sit on HN news all day...

As to examples, it is clear by your comments you do not want actual examples but rather just want to move the goal posts

Cancel Culture is very real, people are terminated from jobs all the time based on their personal posts on twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc, or other comments online that "offend" a certain segment of the population that is perpetually offended at everything and then pressure employers to fire those people.

Happens every day, across this nation


You really couldn't be bothered to come up with one single example?

Yikes.



Kevin was fired for promoting alt-right views on internal message boards at Google, and not for supporting a protest. He made several of his co-workers uncomfortable enough to report him to their managers, who gave him several warnings before rightfully terminating him as an employee.

Here's a more detailed write-up about Kevin Cernekee, what he stands for, and why no one wants to work with him (link below).

https://medium.com/@mikewacker/the-other-side-of-kevin-cerne...

edit: Thanks for the downvotes, too. I'm sorry you couldn't contribute more (read: anything) to this thread.


He was fired for his political position, which is, AFAIK, not a rare case in US companies.

In the link you provided it's clear he was hated and fired for political discussions in mailing lists.


By political discussions, you mean openly supporting (and fundraising at Google for) white pride organizations?


Well yes. Supporting political organisation is the form of political activity. He was bullied and fired for these actions only, I don't see any mentions that he was annoying people any way other than expressing his views. How is that different from penalising people for supporting violent protests?


> Supporting political organisation is the form of political activity.

White power may be a tenant of many different political factions, but it is not a political ideology in itself.

White power is a racist belief. That's it.

> He was bullied and fired for these actions only, I don't see any mentions that he was annoying people any way other than expressing his views.

I don't see any evidence that Kevin was bullied in any way.

Did you not read my last reply to you, before making this reply? Kevin was fund raising, using Google resources, for white supremacy groups.


>Kevin was fund raising, using Google resources, for white supremacy groups.

If he would fundraising, using Google resources, for LGBT groups, would he be fired?


One group stands for supremacy, while the other stands for equality.

Why are you are using a false equivalence to make a point?


Because both are just a political stances.

If it's okay for you to punish for one stance and not to punish for another then you are pro-censorship. So don't be surprised when companies start to censor people you like - you allowed them to do that.


> Because both are just a political stances.

White supremacy is a racist belief, not a political stance or faction.

Why are you using a false equivalence to make a point?


Are you now advocating punishing people for their beliefs?


Nope.


Sure, but it's still part of political process that is complicated and in some cases eliminating other views. But cannot compare it to the communist China and thank goodness there are no special camps in US to educate people until the regime thinks they are eligible to be free.




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