And here it goes, the old tactic. It is not the cancel culture, it is not really the cancel culture, it is holding people accountable.
So firstly, since I am from Europe, the only reasons you can fire people here is if they have done something wrong job-related. Either for incompetency, being under influence, showing reckless behaviour and disregard for safety, breaking the law or simply having the surplus of employees who are not needed anymore. And if someone gets fired due to the surplus reason, you cannot rehire anyone for that position for 6 months.
Secondly, stop your low effort fallacies. The cop stopped you because you had broken the law. He didn't break any law. Logical inconsistency, but what to expect.
Freedom of speech was created so people can hold unpopular opinions. And not to be persecuted. The thing is the US is a third world country in that regard with almost no employee protection. And considering the current climate, there is a 95% chance, he didn't say anything racist or sexist. Those words have lost their meaning a long time ago. Having sexy women selling your products or in games - sexist. Doing the very same thing with men, objectifying them, having unreasonable expectations about their look - perfectly ok. Telling that white people are bad, racist, blaming them for things and passing collective guilt on them, perfectly ok. Saying something about black people - reeeeecism.
Freedom of speech, expression, association rights were created so people were protected from the state and persecution. Because back then, the power and influence of the private sector were relatively weak and the state, the Church were the largest, most common censoring bodies. So we created those rights to protect people and not being politically persecuted by the biggest institutional power back then.
And the world has been evolving since, the role of the state in the everyday life of the people was decreasing and the power of the private sector was increasing. Europe reacted and passed the new laws, regulations, such as the banning of discrimination due to age, sex, sexual preference, religion, health condition and disabilities, opinions and political opinions and so on and also, additionally regulated the labour market, so the relationship between employee and employer is strictly professional and they can not ask you about your political or any views, if you are pregnant, believe in god, who did you vote for etc.
The society, we live in, well, "as we" I mean continental Europe, was created with the rule of law in the mind.
That means you are allowed to do whatever is not prohibited by the law and society cannot persecute you due to your opinions if you do not break the law and if they are not illegal. And those granted rights have the form of constitutional laws and cannot be limited or cancelled in any way, which means including a written contract in which you would agree you are giving up your rights. Such a contract would not be legally binding and would be illegal.
Because if you can be fired for voicing a legal opinion, it is not a free society nor country.
So please, spare me of your accountability propaganda. We have laws to hold people accountable, not outraged mobs, or twitter, kotaku etc.
