Cheerleader’s Snapchat rant leads to ‘momentous’ Supreme Court case on speech

Re:Cheerleader’s Snapchat rant leads to ‘momentous’ Supreme ... by baryphonic on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:53PM (#26948718)

> Conflating these things is a favorite straw man of people who simply feel scared and angry that they don't always get to be jerks with zero social or career implications (try going around saying you are a satanist and see how that affects your career, this isn't a new thing, just people are whining about it more loudly lately). They are very much not the same.

Can you direct me to any incidents where someone expressed support for Satanism, even as a joke, and was then summarily fired after a mob harassed his employer with angry phone calls/tweets expressing (almost entirely empty) threats to boycott or worse?

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Re:Cheerleader’s Snapchat rant leads to ‘momentous’ Supreme ... by nonameiguess on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:50PM (#26958430)

There aren't that many Satanists in the world, but the far more common case is presumably people fired as soon as an employer found out they were gay. Note that sexual orientation is still not technically a protected class, though the EEOC will often take up for you anyway: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/.... Many localities explicitly call out sexual orientation and Obama signed an Executive Order mandating non-discrimination in federal agencies and contractors, but the actual Civil Rights Act does not protect this and case law on specific suits has been wildly inconsistent about it.

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Re:Cheerleader’s Snapchat rant leads to ‘momentous’ Supreme ... by fanciestManimal on Monday April 26, 2021 @06:06PM (#26948866)

Maybe I missed something in this discussion, has someone ever said "I'm a Christian" and then been fired?

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