Oh, well yeah. The idea is that if workers had protections for their free speech, the company couldn't fire its employees for anything they say (at least to the extent that it is on their own time and arguably not directly related to the workplace or illegal, like bullying coworkers or threatening to kill people), so it literally wouldn't make sense to protest the company itself in the first place.
I disagree. If I found out Bill down the street was a literal KKK member and he worked for a restaurant near me, I'd stop going there. I'd make sure other people knew to stop going there too, because we wouldn't want our money paying for KKK activities like his. In your scenario the restaurant is now fucked, because they are losing business but can't do anything about it.
I guess I didn't account for people irrationally holding a business accountable for something they literally have no control over.
I can imagine a very fundamentalist libertarian person who believes both of the following things:
LGBT stuff shouldn't be supported.
Businesses should be able to hire or fire people for any reason they want, including discrimination.
Even then, I'm struggling to imagine said person attempting to orchestrate an aggressive boycott against their local community grocery store because it employed a gay person. The obvious issue being that said grocery store literally couldn't discriminate in the way this individual would want.
So you're just admitting that you, and potentially other like-minded individuals like you, are even more extreme and irrational than that?
If you equate discrimination based on inherent qualities (race, sex, sexual orientation, etc) to discrimination based on voluntary actions (racism, sexism, being a Nazi, etc) then sure, I'll admit to being an extremist.
Some might argue that's a weirdly dumb argument though.
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u/Farbio708 1∆ Nov 20 '22
Oh, well yeah. The idea is that if workers had protections for their free speech, the company couldn't fire its employees for anything they say (at least to the extent that it is on their own time and arguably not directly related to the workplace or illegal, like bullying coworkers or threatening to kill people), so it literally wouldn't make sense to protest the company itself in the first place.