When companies fire people for unpopular speech, it has everything to do with free speech (notice I said free speech and not first amendment) We have created a culture where a company would fire a valued employee because of social pressure. The social pressure should be the view “I don’t like what you have to say, but I’ll defend with my life your right to say it.” In a culture that values free speech, he doesn’t get fired. We are becoming/have become a culture which is beholden to the dogma of petty tyrants. Free speech is dying.
.....”We are becoming/have become a culture which is beholden to the dogma of petty tyrants. Free speech is dying.”....
It’s being ‘murdered’... with purpose.
“We have created a culture where a company would fire a valued employee because of social pressure. The social pressure should be the view “I don’t like what you have to say, but I’ll defend with my life your right to say it.” In a culture that values free speech, he doesn’t get fired. We are becoming/have become a culture which is beholden to the dogma of petty tyrants. Free speech is dying.”
How do you know that Varner was a ‘valued employee’ of the real estate company?
Perhaps he was, maybe he was not, but it is not our under our purview to determine his value to the company.
While our culture should value free speech, we should also respect a businesses’ right to control who is under their employment or contract.
Under the Constitution, KKK members have a right to march in Skokie, but under the terms of their employment, they may not have to right to hand out their business card while at the march.
You know what he did had to be a PR disaster considering Varner is a homosexual himself. If he had outed a Trump supporter, he'd probably still have his job.