It is not against community standards to have a different political point of view.Is it not legally defensible to just say he violated community standards and publicly damaged the reputation of his broadcaster?
He's not even alleging that he was misunderstood.
The funny thing here is that I *liked* Grant. And when it comes to outside-the-job activities I am very much in favor of free speech. But if the station got overwhelming feedback that he crossed a line, I'd argue that it does violate a community standard. What the ratio was, I don't know. But I doubt they would have acted if it was 50/50.
The government didn't cancel him. First amendment doesn't apply to private business. We all know this.
Most people don't, but political speech is protected as a reason to fire someone for cause.
I believe this is to protect employees from being fired for having the wrong presidential candidate on a bumper sticker, not those promoting a racist dog whistle - speech which may violate other core policies of an organizations equal treatment/standards of conduct. Which again is why I said this is a community standards issue not a political one.
Except that it isn't a racist dog whistle. The media has put in overtime trying to make people believe that it is, but the vast majority of those who hold that view have no racist beliefs behind it. It is not based in racism in any form. It is simply saying no one group of people are worth more than any other group.
We'll just agree to disagree and end here.
To be fair, it probably wasn’t what he said so much as what he said finally giving a bunch of people an excuse to air their dirty laundry in regards to him that probably got him fired.
