Comment by skissane

> It seems like this mostly only happens to celebrities who have positioned themselves as liberal thinkers, though

A professional soccer player was fired because his wife made racist posts [1]. Not him, his wife. Of course, that is still something happening to a celebrity (even if a relatively minor one), but the precedent that a person can be fired because of something a family member said is chilling.

(Of course, given at-will employment, it was legal to fire him for this – being married to a person with shitty views is not a protected class – but, not everything legal should be socially acceptable, and firing someone simply because of their spouse's opinions should not be socially acceptable.)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/05/aleksandar-...