• Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Freedom of speech is often conflated with non-discrimination.

    i.e. A grocery store clerk mentioning politics om the job. In a non-“at-will” state and with a non-disgusting contract between employee and employer, the employer never comes under “Free speech” violations, but discrimination ones.

    Even in such a mix of specific circumstances (the state, the employee and the employer being sane rule-wise), there’d still need to be a counterexample - i.e. would the same happen if the person held a slightly different belief or posessed a slightly different shade of skin, set of chromosomes or some other discriminator.

    It’s a higher ask than a “Free Speech” card, but it is a protection. (Some restrictions may apply).