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By Zepp<\/a> <\/span> on Thursday, May 31, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Barring Roseanne<\/b><\/p>\n

Even Deplorables Should Have Rights<\/b><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

May 31st<\/sup> 2018<\/i><\/p>\n

It\u2019s really hard to scrape up a lot of sympathy for Roseann Barr. She has a long history of saying despicable things, and embraces conspiracy theories that seem geared toward hurting innocent people. She really is a swine.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll be the first to admit I felt a certain amount of schadenfreude when I watched the deplorables of the far right, from the President on up, who had been cheering with glee at the NFL\u2019s decision to fine players for silent and respectful protest who now were consumed in fury at ABC\u2019s trampling of Roseanne\u2019s first amendment rights. Most of them didn\u2019t even notice any inconsistency there.<\/p>\n

In fairness, there were plenty on the left who were equally inconsistent, only in the opposite direction. A lot of people have a territorial approach to civil rights, one of the reasons those rights have been degrading in recent decades.<\/p>\n

Back in my Usenet days, we had this one troll who used to brag that he owned a factory, and that he would, from time to time, stroll through the employee parking lot, and any vehicle displaying a bumper sticker for any candidate or cause he didn\u2019t support would result in that employee being fired.<\/p>\n

Now this guy was just a troll, a nobody who just liked to annoy folks, but the fact is in many parts of the country, an employer can do exactly that. Most states have \u201cat will\u201d employment laws, which allow a employer to dismiss an employee for no stated reason. This allows employers to fire someone for having a Bernie sticker on their car, or for being black, or gay, or speaking Spanish in the break room. It makes all those feel-good fair employment practices laws utterly useless, and leaves employers free to punish any viewpoint they don\u2019t like.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of jobs where someone being racist should be fired, because they are in positions where their racism can hurt people, even kill them. Teachers. Police. Firemen. Medical personnel. Politicians. That list doesn\u2019t include entertainers such as football players or TV actors. It doesn\u2019t include line workers with Bernie (or Trump) decals on their cars.<\/p>\n

The dividing line should be: can this person\u2019s assholery cause them to infringe on the right of others as part of their jobs? If it can, the employer is justified in firing them. If it doesn\u2019t, but they are trying to involve the employer in their deplorability (\u201cI work for Greasy Spoon restaurants and I think all gays should be castrated\u201d on Facebook) that would be reasonable cause for termination).<\/p>\n

Outfits that try to deny others their rights should be subject to civil suits. Nobody needs to care if the owner of Greasy Spoon Restaurants is a nasty little bigot, as long as that doesn\u2019t translate to discrimination in the restaurants. If it does, Greasy Spoon needs to suffer grievously in court.<\/p>\n

Roseanne Barr is just a television entertainer. Her opinions might disgust people, but they don\u2019t deprive them of their rights. She\u2019s just another asshole on Twitter. Her employer should not have the power to destroy her career just because she\u2019s a jackass on her own time. Just as football players should not be fined by their employers for quietly protesting injustice. You can\u2019t support one and not the other.<\/p>\n

But employers should, by law, have to account for terminations. There\u2019s a lot they need to account for that they don\u2019t, and as a result, while Americans still have a vestige of civil rights, American workers have less rights than the lowest beggar in Calcutta, often only fractionally above that of American slaves.<\/p>\n

Liberals love to push for legislation that protects people from discrimination but turn a blind eye to the ability of employers to discriminate pretty much at will, making the rights they fight for meaningless.<\/p>\n

American fascists love to pretend that liberalism is leftist (at least when it suits their purposes, as in smearing a liberal though red-baiting) but the fact is they are usually two different things.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s in the interest of liberals to fight vociferously for worker\u2019s rights, consumer rights, and curbs on banks, churches, corporations and the government. People\u2019s rights are much easier to defend when the people involved have some actual economic clout. A person without income security has no rights.<\/p>\n

This includes not making people\u2019s first amendment rights subject to caprice on the part of employers. You have a right to make an obnoxious fool of yourself\u2014or make a principled stand, demonstrating dignity and courage. Both are usually in the eye of the beholder, and that beholder shouldn\u2019t be able to make or break you for being a human. Either way, your employer should not have any say in the matter, so long as you aren\u2019t involving them directly.<\/p>\n

People gain by defending the rights of everyone, and remembering that having rights doesn\u2019t include stripping others of their rights. It doesn\u2019t matter if you think Roseanne Barr is full of it, or Colin Kaepernick; either way, they shouldn\u2019t be subject to penalization in their work by employers. What ABC and the NFL did was the equivalent of that Usenet troll, strolling through the parking lot of his imaginary factory and capriciously firing people for the crime of having opinions. Only these are real people, losing real jobs, for bullshit reasons.<\/p>\n

Until you have power in the workplace, you don\u2019t have rights; you barely have a life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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