Oh I agree, to a point. I'm merely pointing out that we have created a culture of corporate personhood where the almighty dollar dictates what is "right." Large corporations have bought and paid for the votes of many politicians to see to it that corporations have undeniable rights to make money. Not saying that it…

As I've said elsewhere, vote with your wallet, that's what the free market is about.

Absolutely, let the free market decide. Which is part of the reason NBA removed Sterling. Free market forces dictated that he was harming the NBA, which acted accordingly. Vote with your wallets.

Well said. Ironically the same politicians who think that these incidents are "free speech" violations are the same ones who advocate for corporate personhood.

That's neither here nor there as far as my argument is concerned, Turtle Rock had an adequate fear that backlash might hurt their business, and acted accordingly. That's their right to free enterprise. Market forces will dictate. It may have been a bad call, they have, as you mentioned, lost your potential…

I'm just saying it's my right of free enterprise to turn a profit on my business free from too much government oversight. If one of my employees is a klansmen and everyone in town knows it, and it's hurting my business, I shouldn't have to keep him on my payroll just because of "free speech."

Who cares? I have a right to MAKE MONEY.

And that is exactly why she will lose the lawsuit(s) Sterling and his wife have filed against her.

Sterling's big "punishment" for all of this is that he has to sell his team for 1600% profit...

It's possible he can sue and get a sum of money, it happens, just depends on his contract. The fact is he was a public figure for a company and made a public opinion known on an account that he has associated with his company. That public opinion was unpopular and damaged his employer, who then removed him.

Yeah, I'm kinda on the fence with his skits, like, I like the idea of his X-Men skits but he doesn't actually know enough about the comics to make it funny to X-Men fans, the whole thing is basically based on passing knowledge of the movies, so it would only be funny to people who know the bare minimum about X-Men,…

Well, who you are is who you are, you have no choice in that and shouldn't be able to be fired or discriminated against. What you say, especially hate speech, is a choice, for one.

But companies do this already, constantly, and only change when they catch public flack because of it.

Corporation's have the power here. The true irony is that the politicians who complain about the Sterling incident as a violation of free speech are the same ones who are in the pocket of big business and who do everything they can to defend the American Corporation's RIGHT to make money. These incidents are not…

Yeah, I'm part serious and part joking. I think it's a little ridiculous the amount of political sway some companies have but: If I owned a small business, and found out that one of my employees was part of a hate group, I would like to have the right to fire them to distance my business from the hate group. If the…

I see that, and agree. I just feel it's a misnomer to label it as protecting free speech, because the government isn't censuring anyone or prosecuting anyone for what they are saying, merely the companies (who are people who are free to make money) feel they no longer want to associate with someone because of what…

I think more people were just angered by the inane naivete of Olin's statement, as he sounds like everyone else crying "free speech" when this has nothing to do with free speech, and it's clear that Olin knows nothing of Sterling's numerous and storied history of racial discrimination and violations with regard to the…

Actually he got really sheepish and embarrassed that we caught him.

This has nothing to do with free speech. It has everything to do with Free Enterprise. It is a company's (who is a person) right to make money and profit free from too much government oversight. If an employee tarnishes a company's reputation through their actions, that company has a right to fire that employee in…

We hope so. I've since moved away and don't keep in touch much.