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Originally posted by Spanky
Ok that is fair.
What about somone firing Lindberg for having Nazi sympathys?
BTW: I think both Lindberg, Joseph Kennedy et. al. were fascist anti-semetic pigs, and I wish they were brought before a congressional committee. Hitler clearly laid out his plans for the world and even America in Mein Kempf, so it is not like they could claim they didn't really know what the Nazi's stood for.
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Depends. I would have a problem with him being canned by Pan Am (or whichever airline he was a consultant for) 20 years after the fact, based upon a threat to Pan Am of an economic boycott made by a group of anti-Nazis in charge of vetting airline executives. I would not have a problem with them canning him at the time because of his pro-Hitler comments.
eta: The distinction, I think, is that a blacklist takes the decision away from the employer. It isn't CBS firing Faulk because they don't like his politics, it's CBS doing it because they feared the loss of sponsors, who in turn feared the boycotts of AWARE's backers and of being accused of "funding communist propaganda."
