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Berkeley Hot Dog Stand Fires Cook Seen At Charlottesville Protest (leftist McCarthyism)
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/08/13/berkeley-man-fired-over-charlottesville-protest/#comment-692529 ^

Posted on 08/14/2017 9:38:30 AM PDT by Cubs Fan

BERKELEY (CBS SF) — A worker at a Berkeley hot dog chain has lost his job after being outed on social media as being one of the Charlottesville white supremacist protesters.

A poster at Berkeley’s Top Dog said that Cole White — who was identified on Twitter — no longer works at the restaurant. White had been a cook at the fast-food restaurant.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fired; neonazis
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For years the left decried McCarthyism and blacklisting. Now they are using these same tactics to get around constitutional protections of freedom of speech and freedom of association.
1 posted on 08/14/2017 9:38:30 AM PDT by Cubs Fan
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I said on an earlier thread that there might be more to this story than what's being reported.

I find it more than a little odd that some fast-food cook from a dive in Berkeley, CA would travel all the way to Virginia for an alleged "right-wing nationalist" demonstration.

2 posted on 08/14/2017 9:41:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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Why would anyone go from Berkeley to Charlottesville for this protest — especially someone with the budget of a hot dog cart employee?

Clearly, he’s a PAID PROTESTER.


3 posted on 08/14/2017 9:42:51 AM PDT by boycott
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KPIX 5 legal analyst Melissa Caen weighed in on the legality of possibly firing White for attending the rally.

“It’s not a First Amendment issue,” she said. “Remember, that only protects you from actions by the government based on your speech. It doesn't’t protect you from actions by your private employer. It’s also probably not a discrimination issue, because going to a rally like this, participating like this, doesn't’t make you a member of a protected class.”

That's right an employer can fire someone for speech or associations they don't like. But how long will it take before anyone expressing an opinion that the left doesn't like getting fired destroys free speech and freedom of association? Unfortunately we may find out.

4 posted on 08/14/2017 9:44:02 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (The only thing standing in the way of full blown leftist totalitarianism is Donald Trump)
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THIS IS MEANT TO BE A WARNING TO OTHERS

Do something the left disagrees with, and lose your job.

How does someone who works at a food cart afford to go to a political event across he country?


5 posted on 08/14/2017 9:45:27 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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The left has been blacklisting conservatives for years in Hollywood.

Major stars get a partial exemption.


6 posted on 08/14/2017 9:45:28 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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This sounds weird.

How can a guy employed as a Fast Food cook in Berkeley afford to travel all the way across the country to protest at a small town in Virginia no one ever heard of?

And a ‘white supremacist’ from Berkeley?...................


7 posted on 08/14/2017 9:46:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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[ Why would anyone go from Berkeley to Charlottesville for this protest — especially someone with the budget of a hot dog cart employee?

Clearly, he’s a PAID PROTESTER. ]

Probably a PAID LARPER ( Live Action Role Player ) , gets paid for being a NAZI to make the right look bad.


8 posted on 08/14/2017 9:46:43 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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The purge continues. You will not have any White Pride, under penalty of losing your job.


9 posted on 08/14/2017 9:47:14 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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There is a Berkeley,VA and a Berkeley, WV.


10 posted on 08/14/2017 9:48:15 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfefe.)
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His right to free speech and association was infringed by the gov’t? He was arrested for simply being at the event? Or did a private business simply fire an employee?


11 posted on 08/14/2017 9:48:32 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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I’m pretty sure Top Dog is in Berkeley, CA. This article is posted in a San Francisco news outlet.


12 posted on 08/14/2017 9:49:24 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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Top Dog is in Berkeley, CA.


13 posted on 08/14/2017 9:50:14 AM PDT by lodi90
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I’m pretty sure there’s a California labor law prohibiting the firing of an employee for engaging in political activity. It was passed during the Vietnam era, mainly to protect teachers who were being let go for participating in anti-war activities ...


14 posted on 08/14/2017 9:51:29 AM PDT by Vesparado (The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
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Wow. Hope he can find another great job like he lost.


15 posted on 08/14/2017 9:51:49 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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$15 an hour buys you a plane ticket.

Actually more likely a lefty plant. Walk around and yell vile things....then run away when one of your own attacks you.

Mission accomplished on so many fronts.


16 posted on 08/14/2017 9:52:45 AM PDT by PSUGOP
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His right to free speech and association was infringed by the gov’t? He was arrested for simply being at the event? Or did a private business simply fire an employee?

If everyone in America has to live in fear of losing their job for expressing non liberal opinions are we still a country where speech is free? No we are not. The left is using a loophole to kill free speech and freedom of assocation.

17 posted on 08/14/2017 9:52:57 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (The only thing standing in the way of full blown leftist totalitarianism is Donald Trump)
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not a smart move in California. We have lawyers behind every rock drooling at the thought of an unlawful termination case.


18 posted on 08/14/2017 9:53:33 AM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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... at a small town in Virginia no one ever heard of?

Uh, Charlottesville is quite the nice area, and I believe, what used to be the jewel in the UVA system.

19 posted on 08/14/2017 9:54:04 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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For years the left decried McCarthyism and blacklisting.

There is no more thorough blacklisting and McCarthyism than that employed by the Hollywood left. Hollywood has made bank on exploiting McCarthy in film and yet it is very commonly well understood that Conservatives are aggressively blacklisted.

20 posted on 08/14/2017 9:54:27 AM PDT by Obadiah
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