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Accountable for our beliefs? What is this? 1940 Germany? You must not understand the first amendment friend. See, in the US people are allowed to believe whatever the hell they want to, you want to believe that you’re a (this is an example) left handed pansexual leprechaun? Go ahead. But let’s not get caught up in the idea of punishing people for believing in something.
Comment by An_Actual_Politician at 05/10/2018 at 21:23 UTC
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Exactly. But then again this exactly the kind of intolerant, vindictive, juvenile mob-rule group think that keeps me wandering over here.
Comment by swolemedic at 06/10/2018 at 12:52 UTC
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You must not understand the first amendment friend.
For what it's worth, you're not understanding the first amendment either. I don't believe OP should narc this person out, their private beliefs are their private beliefs, but the first amendment only protects you from the government impeding your freedom of speech. There is absolutely positively nothing to stop an employer from firing you if they find out you posted anything like this privately on facebook
I'm not promoting snitching, but this isn't a first amendment violation in any way, nor would it be one if the company fired the guy for it.
In fact, a whole big part of the reasoning for the first amendment is so that you can have your own views, beliefs, whatever, but that society as a whole can ostracize you for it. This would be ostracizing and there is nothing the government can do to stop that.
Comment by [deleted] at 05/10/2018 at 20:43 UTC
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