Professor: I Was Fired for Going on Fox News

[Call Sign Chaos]

You don't understand. One, she was not representing the college and she was not identified as faculty at the college.

Irrelevant they can fire her for any reason or no reason, the 1st amendment only applies to the state, Trinity college is a private school the 1st amendment does not apply.

Two, if she can show the college punished her for her speech, she has an actionable cause against her employer.

No she doesn't the 1st amendment doesn't apply to her employer it applies to the government.

Three, if she can show that not only she was punished for speech that had nothing to do with her profession or her identify as a member of the college faculty but that she was singled out also as a woman or a minority, the college will pay dearly.

If they violated the civil rights act she will, but the civil rights act has nothing to do with freedom of speech. For the last time the 1st amendment only applies to the state you fucking retard.

The First Amendment, however, applies only to restrictions imposed by the government, since the First and Fourteenth amendments refer only to government action. As a result, if a private employer fires an employee because of the employee’s speech, there is no First Amendment violation. There is likewise no violation if a private university expels a student for what the student said, if a commercial landlord restricts what bumper stickers are sold on the property it owns, or if an Internet service provider refuses to host certain Web sites.

First Amendment | Contents & Supreme Court Interpretations

 

[JakeStarkey]

Your argument, prima facie, that the 1st Amendment applies to the state is false.

All employers are bound to protect an employees civil lawyers.

You clearly do not understand the issue. I explained to you how it works.

Thank heavens you are not an attorney.

 

[Roudy]

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Sounds more like she was fired for categorically advocating for racial segregation.

 

[August West]

If you show up on foxs fakenewss...Well, you deserve to be fired from any college that you taught. Sorry, but fox is pure shit.

They wear their ignorance as a badge of honor.

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