Lifelong Blackhawk fan but I walked when they trotted out a black member of another team to take a knee during the Star spangled Banner who then stood for O Canada.
Dead and buried.
Posted on 01/14/2021 8:45:51 AM PST by Major Matt Mason
That opportunity ended early this week, he said, when he was called by Private Jet Services, which is handling charter flights for NHL teams such as the Hurricanes, and informed he was being fired as a travel concierge because of his work in Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
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of course they did, we will all be subject to the purge. No one is exempt. your job is based on ideology, not competence. Where have we observed that in history.
I smell a Law Suit coming.
Or a civil rights violation.
Pure discrimination case.
All sports are dead to me now.
Do the Radical Leftist Loons seriously think they’re going to get as many as 75 million voters fired from their jobs and removed from the economy just because they supported and voted for Donald Trump? Are they truly this bat-[excrement] insane???
I smell a Law Suit coming.
Or a civil rights violation.
Pure discrimination case.
“That happens when you are a nation of laws, a republic.”
Then at some point, to use a leftist weirdo’s movie phrase, “Someone is going to go postal.”
I am not advocating this to happen. But, if they keep this up. It will happen. Maybe more than once or twice.
Doubtful. Political preferences are not a “protected class” and given it’s an at-will employment state, it might be tough. But I hope he sues their pants off anyway just for the publicity.
Does a business owner have to right to not hire or fire someone they discover worked for the Biden campaign?
It would appear so.
No, but they hope to create a chilling effect. They want to make you afraid that you’ll be next.
This is how totalitarian regimes work. They don’t arrest everyone, but occasionally they’ll drag someone out of the their home in the middle of the night never to be seen again.
This makes everyone else afraid they’ll be next.
The NHL has jumped on the BLM nonsense before, but its more muted, because they realize their fans really hate that political shyte.
Why would they want to stir controversy by firing some “nobody”
This requires more confirmation, I believe.
“ It would appear so.”
So we all agree that a company can fire someone for working for Biden, Obama, Clinton or any other candidate?
The person who wrote this, Chip Alexander, is a well known NHL reporter. He has inside NHL sources.
I don’t know how anyone can still support pro sports
I smell a Law Suit coming Or a civil rights violation. Pure discrimination case.
Read the article
Doesn’t matter, they are dead to me.
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