SYNDICATED COLUMN: If You Can Get Fired Over Your Politics, What Good is the First Amendment?

Ted Rall's Rallblog 2014-04-25

Summary:

Now that the controversy over Mozilla’s firing of CEO Brendan Eich over his antigay politics has subsided (and before something similar happens again, which it surely will), it’s time for a brief tutorial on McCarthyism. Because, if those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, Americans — who don’t notice history even as it’s […]

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Authors:

Ted Rall

Date tagged:

04/25/2014, 15:20

Date published:

04/25/2014, 15:08