Comment by teamhappy

I can't tell if we agree that they shouldn't have fired the guy. CEOs and politicians are a different thing because they represent people (or are supposed to anyway). As far as firing normal people goes, I'm not sure. I guess you'd want the right to fire bigots, but you also want to protect employees from bigots at the same time.

Shouldn't be too hard to find many american comedians saying pretty outrages stuff on youtube. You can look that up yourself I guess. Mel Gibson isn't funny.

> You can't say bigoted things in this day and age and survive.

But that's exactly how comedy works. The point is comedians don't mean it. Mel Gibson probably did mean those things, but the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists didn't. They literally made a living drawing funny things they didn't mean. And everybody knows that. You don't have to think they're funny, of course, but we as a society have agreed upon that stopping them because of that can't be an option either.