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You absolutely still can be fired in the United States for publicly identifying as a communist. Hell, you can be fired for merely demonstrating against police b
by iron0013 6y ago
You absolutely still can be fired in the United States for publicly identifying as a communist. Hell, you can be fired for merely demonstrating against police brutality.
- tssva 6y agoIn most of the United States you can be fired for absolutely no reason whatsoever except the boss wants to.
- iron0013 6y agoYup
- shadowgovt 6y agoThere are protected classes of worker, but the burden to prove the firing was due to protected reasons is on the worker.
- kls 6y agoI am in no way arguing that you cannot, just making the observation that social contracts change and a secondary and personal point that I find the practice detestable. I do not want someone to loose their livelihood because I disagree with them on their personal ideology and I certainly don't want to loose employment because someone disagrees with me on my personal belief system. The US communist witch-hunt is a great example because McCarthyism led to a good number of people who where not communist but where still undesirable to the current (at the time) social contract, being blacklisted by just throwing a communist label on them, which resulted in their lives and livelihood being destroyed.
- kls 6y agoAs a further note on this, I am of the opinion that loosing ones security and safety net pushes them further to the fringe. I think this is a problem with modern society no one is listening, everyone is pushing when they should be pulling as pushing moves them in a direction contrary to the results one is seeking.