This firing helps liberals. Firing idiot liberals for saying idiotic things helps liberals and liberalism in general by demonstrating the consequences for violating standards of behavior. Not firing her would have hurt liberals and liberalism, since it would have helped normalize idiocy from liberals.
That’s also true, but I still think it’s a poisonous custom. And the ones who get fired are more likely to be liberal, plus historically it’s been used more against liberals as well.
This is because liberals are more likely to have actual principles and exclude hateful people from our ranks. Conservatives, on the other hand, happily embrace hateful and dangerous people.
The alternative to firing people who show lack of character, honest, and integrity, is ending up with a network like fox news.
I’d rather see a few liberals suffer for being stupid than see progressivism suffer for following int he footsteps of the reactionary right.
Does she lack character, honesty, or integrity, or did she just say something intemperate that she didn’t really mean? By now I guess everyone has to realize that the line she crossed is a firing offense. This is literally happening after every tragedy and disaster now. I can’t imagine that anyone on social media doesn’t know that a post saying, “I don’t feel sorry for these people because they voted Republican” is a career ender. So although I hate the practice of firing people for social media posts, I’m starting to wonder why these social media posts are still happening.
Both stupidity and momentary stupidity are available to all, and show no sign of going away.
Is she going to post a thread several years down the line announcing reconsideration of her former views?
Because most employers probably don’t check all their employees’ twitter feeds.
Wow. What a steaming pile of bullshit that statement was.
Translation from the original conservaspeak:
“Nuh uh, am not!”
Let’s see that picture you took of a random woman from a block away and tell us the triggering thing she said to you.
I should have qualified my original statement. Some neo Nazis are very fine people.
The Democratic Party’s two most famous women are both now on record basically saying that women who vote Republican do so because they are told to by their husbands.
Now granted, Obama wasn’t as direct about it as Clinton, and it’s plausible that maybe she was talking about the media? Condescending either way.
I have to agree with this. A “conservative” is someone like Jimmy Carter, David Brinkley or George H. W. Bush, who actually do have principles. These critters that inhabit Newscorp and the Republican Party are a completely different thing. Conservatives should not be tarred with this brush.
I’ve noticed that liberals often get a pass for their personal sins as long as they support the right causes. But usually they have enough class not to actually ask for a dispensation. Harvey Weinstein is actually that classless:
“Hey, I’m doing an anti-Trump film, I’m fighting the NRA, I’m going to name some good cause after my mother or something!”
Where did you see that part?
We gave him a pass? On that story that appeared just today?
Well, you probably will. Because reasons. So there.
Not saying he has gotten a pass, just pointing out that he seems to think he’s entitled to one because he’s on the side of the angels politically. Lisa Bloom sure seems to think he should get a pass, she’s going to defend him in court against his accusers. Supposedly she’s a famous feminist. Except Weinstein optioned her book into a miniseries and he pays well.
Maybe you have a cite? Because what you linked didn’t even come close to saying that.