08-23-2020, 02:55 PM
(08-23-2020, 02:15 PM)Sled21 Wrote: It's parallel to the 1st Amendment issue. It's easy to follow the 1st Amendment when speech is nice, it's more difficult when the speech is vile. (not saying this is a 1st Amendment issue, because he had a right to say it, and they had a right to fire him for it.)
Yea, I think people often conflate what is legally acceptable to say and what is socially acceptable to say.
It is not illegal to be sexist, racist, homophobic or anti-semitic, unless it blatantly and actively incites violence or alarm.
It is, however, not socially acceptable anymore. Meaning, if your boss or your friends or your co-workers hear you say those things, they may not want to work with you anymore. Or, in public affairs like this, fans will not want to interact with anything that you are a part of.
That is all that is happening here. He isn't being arrested. His life isn't being ruined. He is just suspended and possibly fired. If he's talented enough, he'll get another job. There are many celebrities who were "cancelled" but then went on to get a new job a little while later. I'm not even certain there has been a celebrity that was "cancelled" that has not gone on to have a career afterwards anyway, with the exception of the ones that are going to prison, like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby.
Now, that may not happen for Thom because, in my opinion, he was never a good commentator and was only given his job because of his father. But maybe some team disagrees with me and gives him a shot.
Who's to say?
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