Does NBA photographer who has been fired for posting up an Kamala Harris meme deserve a 2nd chance?

[PurpnGold]

@WuWei

What should happen to anybody calling Harris what Baptist did?

Nothing, unless your employer objects. Or wife…or Daughter…etc.

@WuWei

Are you the employer?

I didn’t make the decision, did I? I support the employers decision. The guy wasn’t even an employee. They don’t need a reason.

@WuWei

Which has what to do with James?

Supporting his work peer. What’s wrong with that?

[PurpnGold]

@WuWei

Glad we could agree you were wrong.

I’m not wrong. Baptist worked for the NBA. NBA is the final arbiter for what is acceptable or not of its contractors.

[PeterGriffin]

The whining about “cancel culture”.

[WuWei]

Great discussion, especially @PeterGriffin and @zantax .

Thank you all for your civility.

[hwyflier]

@WuWei

I know.

All that really matters is whatever El Jefe think’s matters.

/related or not, I just discovered that most professional athletes get W2’s.

[zantax]

@PeterGriffin

The whining about “cancel culture”.

Perhaps that only shows the right cares more about free speech and unfettered political debate.

[PurpnGold]

@zantax

Perhaps that only shows the right cares more about free speech and unfettered political debate.

I thought the right was pro business? Why wouldn’t the right support the NBAs decision to fire a contractor who said something they found unacceptable?

[PeterGriffin]

Good luck with that one.

That’s all the carping about “cancel culture” is. People want the freedom to say whatever they want, but they don’t want to live with the consequences of it. It’s ringing up a lot more on the right. I maintain its because well, they have a lot higher propensity to say things that will get them in hot water as it’s the simplest explanation that makes sense.

[zantax]

@PurpnGold

@zantax

Perhaps that only shows the right cares more about free speech and unfettered political debate.

I thought the right was pro business? Why wouldn’t the right support the NBAs decision to fire a contractor who said something they found unacceptable?

I thought we had been over this. Supporting their right to do it is not saying it is the right thing to do. And then we have the unequal application aspect, where obviously many people only support it I f the person who is fired, is if they come from the other political side.

[PurpnGold]

@zantax

And then we have the unequal application aspect, where obviously many people only support if the person who is targeted is on their political side.

So me an example of the NBA not letting go of a contractor for calling someone on the right a whore?

I’ll be right there with you calling them on their BS

[zantax]

@PurpnGold

@zantax

And then we have the unequal application aspect, where obviously many people only support if the person who is targeted is on their political side.

So me an example of the NBA not letting go of a contractor for calling someone on the right a whore?

I’ll be right there with you calling them on their BS

Your narrowing of the circumstances is amusing. Strange position that it’s somehow ok to engage in that behavior if you aren’t a contractor or happened to work for someone else. That’s some real situational ethics magic right there.

[PurpnGold]

@zantax

Your narrowing of the circumstances is amusing. Strange position that it’s somehow ok to engage in that behavior if you aren’t a contractor or happened to work for someone else. That’s some real situational ethics magic right there.

Isn’t this what the thread is about? What the NBA did to this guy? Every company is different. For example, Why would I expect Hobby Lobby to have the same employee standards as the NFL?

[zantax]

@PurpnGold

@zantax

Your narrowing of the circumstances is amusing. Strange position that it’s somehow ok to engage in that behavior if you aren’t a contractor or happened to work for someone else. That’s some real situational ethics magic right there.

Isn’t this what the thread is about? What the NBA did to this guy? Every company is different. For example, Why would I expect Hobby Lobby to have the same employee standards as the NFL?

So in your opinion, it would be ethical and you support calling women whores, if it comes from an employee at Hobby Lobby? I am of the opinion that if it is wrong for an NBA photographer it’s still wrong when you are selling buttons.

[PurpnGold]

@zantax

So in your opinion, it would be ethical and you support calling women whores, if it comes from an employee at Hobby Lobby?

I don’t support anyone calling a woman a whore. Whether it is a fireable is up to the company.

[zantax]

@PurpnGold

@zantax

So in your opinion, it would be ethical and you support calling women whores, if it comes from an employee at Hobby Lobby?

I don’t support anyone calling a woman a whore. Whether it is a fireable is up to the company.

So you have no personal opinion on whether he should have been fired? Is that what I will find to be true if I go back through the thread?

[PurpnGold]

@zantax

So you have no personal opinion on whether he should have been fired? Is that what I will find to be true if I go back through the thread?

I probably would not have fired him for that meme. But since he was a contractor there isn’t any HR mitigation’s that could have been in place prior to canceling his contract. I bet if he was an NBA employee, he would not have been fired.

[Mountain_Soldier]

@Guilds

@Mountain_Soldier

Liberals don’t care what their own do.

You say this as a Trump supporter?

Yep. I’ve taken issue with things Trump has done.

[zantax]

@PurpnGold

@zantax

So you have no personal opinion on whether he should have been fired? Is that what I will find to be true if I go back through the thread?

I probably would not have fired him for that meme. But since he was a contractor there isn’t any HR mitigation’s that could have been in place prior to canceling his contract. I bet if he was an NBA employee, he would not have been fired.

Do you support the NBA firing him, yes, no, no opinion? If you don’t or have no opinion, you aren’t who I was talking about.

[Mountain_Soldier]

@FreeAndClear

@Mountain_Soldier

@FreeAndClear

I don’t know. I didn’t know the woman who gave the finger to the motorcade was going to get elected to public office either.

Liberals don’t care what their own do.

Well that’s not true at all but be careful you are going to tip over holding a brush that broad

Not at all. When has it happened?

[FreeAndClear]

When was happened? When were liberals fired or affected for going too far.

Again the woman with the motorcade was fired. That she is now a politician has nothing to do with it.