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Teachers, firefighters and military personnel among those who lost jobs after posting their opinion on social media
Reactions on social media to the murder of far-right activist Charlie Kirk have cost multiple people their jobs as authorities in numerous states clamp down on critical commentary.
Among those to have been fired, suspended or censured in recent days for their opinions include teachers, firefighters, journalists, politicians, a secret service employee and a worker for a prominent NFL team.
The dismissals come as the administration of Donald Trump promises to take action against foreign nationals it deems to be “praising, rationalizing or making light of” Kirk’s killing, himself a fervent free speech advocate.
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Laura Loomer, a Trump loyalist, posted to X: “Prepare to have your whole future professional aspirations ruined if you are sick enough to celebrate his death. I’m going to make you wish you never opened your mouth.”
jokes on her, i don’t have any professional aspirations, future aspirations, or future. may past performance indicate future results.
I mean I for one plan to visit the man’s grave before I die to pay my respects
And I don’t plan on pissing the entire drive there
you should eat lots of spicy chili on the way!
and taco bell
gifs you can experience
I thought conservatives don’t like cancel culture
THE MAN SAID CHILDREN GETTING MURDERED EVERY OTHER WEEK WHERE THEY GO TO LEARN WAS WORTH IT SO HE COULD PLAY WITH GUNS. CHILDREN. CHIL. DREN.
So, it’s okay to lionize the guy - and that’s not political speech that a company or org needs to worry about?
Right?
The problem is if you don’t show sufficient sadness about the killing of a Nazi?
Shouldn’t liberals maybe be keeping lists and doxxing the people that show outsized support for this Nazi, and demanding that THEY be cancelled?
Plenty of neo-Nazi shitbags holding candles in the photo. The companies, politicians, school leadership, etc…are revealing themselves too.
NPR just posted an article about this, and it’s no longer “several” but rapidly escalating. I’ll repost what I wrote in that article on !politics@lemmy.world
This is not merely the escalation of political violence against the right’s out groups, it is the proliferation of a culture of right wing terrorism. They said it was civil war, and while that rhetoric has tempered due to the unsurprising discovery that the assassin was yet another right wing radical, they fully intend to escalate their civil war goals by robbing opponents of their means to survive in our capitalist hellscape of a country.
This is my advice, if you find someone who has had their livelihoods stolen from them for expressing relief at a slightly kinder world, share their employer. Share the website, the Yelp, flood them with emails and 1-star reviews letting them know that terrorism will not be tolerated.
The republicans said we are war. It may not be a war of bullets and bombs, at least not yet, but do not doubt them.
What is the legality of the terminations?
In the US, most states have no worker protections whatsoever and you can be fired for anything or nothing. The worst part is, employers can and do lie about their reasons for harming their workers in order to prevent them from collecting even the pittance that is unemployment, and the workers have very little recourse. Worse, potential employers asking applicants why they left their past jobs or if they have ever been fired has become standard practice in the US, despite such questions being very inappropriate.
Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, meanwhile, has ordered staff “to find and identify military members, and any individual associated with the Pentagon, who have mocked or appeared to condone Charlie Kirk’s murder”, NBC News reportedFriday.
Wessel’s funeral was given wide attention in Berlin, with many of the Nazi elite in attendance. After his death, he became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany. A march for which he had written the lyrics was renamed the “Horst-Wessel-Lied”(“Horst Wessel Song”), and became the official anthem of the Nazi Party. After Adolf Hitler came to national power in 1933, the song became the co-national anthem of Germany, along with the first verse of the previous “Deutschlandlied”, also known as “Deutschland über alles”.
It’s word-for-word (better in the original German) the same playbook. This ToiletPaperUSA guy is, I guess you could say, a kind of . . . nuclear Wessel.
Heh.
Yeah, yeah, I’m going
Criminalizing your political opponents is very much on brand
Wasn’t Charlie supposed to be some kind of advocate for free speech? Because this sure doesn’t seem very free speechy.
They didn’t want Free speech they wanted hate speech
Free speech - offer not valid for some political persuasions, mouthy women, POC, foreigners, those not sufficiently
Marklar, excuse me, “maga”, non-xtians…etc.No he was an advocate for right wing speech
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Yeah, why aren’t we applauding Charlie using his feedom of speech? /s
We’re at the Thought Police stage it appears.
Also, Charlie Kirk was a rage-spewing hate-muppet who was killed by an even worse wannabe nazi piece of societal deadweight. He got what he deserved. Come at me, THINKPOL.
We’re at the Thought Police stage it appears.
Corporate America has always fired people for expressing political opinions. Ya’ll either haven’t worked in a real job or are very young, this isn’t anything new. Whether or not this decades-old unspoken policy is correct or not is an entirely different conversation, but let’s not pretend that corporate America has ever stood up for freedom of speech or let people express their hot takes at work, that’s fucking absurd.
Yeah, but now you have people intentionally weaponizing that - even for speech well outside of work, and only because they want to punish those not like them and who don’t embrace a Nazi - which our government is fucking honoring right now, by the way.
Where is the punishment for those that express support for Kirk? That’s not political? Why aren’t those motherfuckers being singled out, doxxed and FIRED? They are supporting a Nazi. I would think that is much more grounds for firing…
Since when are military, teachers, and firefighters part of corporate America? And coming from the absolutist free speech party? These are government positions being terminated for expressing an opinion. You know, protected speech.
Also, have any been fired for publicly supporting Kirk? Why isn’t that a thing?
You could have expressed your opinion without including the insulting (and completely wrong) assumptions about me. But you chose not to. Cheers!
I made zero assumptions about you, my comment was objectively very generalized, but if you took it personally, that’s on you and how you choose to take even mildly, distantly opposing views and maybe you should work on that.
Fuck your feelings, snowflakes - am I doing it right?
Not enough slurs if you’re going for authenticity.
The trouble is that – at least for now – the worst things we can call them aren’t considered slurs.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
It really is to the point now where public employees don’t get to have a personal life.
Many years ago I got in trouble at work for posting a meme making fun of the bible. A client of ours didn’t like it and complained to my boss. This was on my personal facebook page at the time.
I learned from that lesson
I dare anyone to figure out who my current employer is, unless your a cop and know my real name and have the ability to pull my records from the IRS you aren’t going find out.
