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I think it's reasonable for a professional driver to be fired over speeding tickets, even when they don't reach the severity of a misdemeanor. I think it's rea

I think it's reasonable for a professional driver to be fired over speeding tickets, even when they don't reach the severity of a misdemeanor. I think it's reasonable for employees doing public relations (say, "community managers") to be fired over bigotry and hateful speech, even though these can be cast as "political opinions". I'm sure we can both find examples in the other direction too, however - there's a huge spectrum of circumstances under those umbrellas. "It's complicated" -- and likely not as simple as "yes" or "no".

RadiumTwo 13y ago
It's a little late, and I'm not able to put time into looking into it tonight, but I imagine that towards the end of slavery, Northern business owners who claimed that paying free men to work would put their businesses under and that those same owners were looked down upon in their community. We may be looking at the same phenomenon occuring. And, yes, the spectrum is huge. This covers everything from speeding tickets to domestic violence, and beyond.