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So what happens if the allegations turn out to hold no weight? Does he get his channel back and the bureaucrat NPCs self-flagellate with hashtag mea culpas?

I suppose not

The culture wars are out of control



Do you get your job back if your 'right to work state' if your accused of being a sexual predator and your job fires you... no, you do not.

Tomorrow everyone will be back at 'right to work' and 'freedom of association' around here on some other topic.


If you are accused, you don't lose your job; proof must be there first. Otherwise, you can sue for wrongful termination, and there will be hell to pay in dollars. HR's job is to protect the company first, so unless they catch someone in the act, they won't know or want to know unless it comes from you or the cops.

But this is different because it's politics and a public person. It's different rules for them. Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard is an excellent example of how easily the mobs can be misled and manipulated.

I don't think it's fair that allegations can destroy a man's life just because he's famous, but that's how the cosmic cookie crumbled.

Technically, YouTube should only be able to demonetize Russel Brand once he's proven guilty, but pointing out hypocrisy makes one very unpopular nowadays


>you can sue for wrongful termination, and there will be hell to pay in dollars.

Maybe in your state, or maybe in your country, but in "right to work" states, the best you'll get is unemployment.


I’m a Texan so I am, for some people, in a fanatical place for “right to work”. Even here, If you get a DUI, only way you get fired is if they find out, which they shouldn’t.

In that case you could sue and why it doesn’t happen is because of the legal consequences.

Maybe they will, maybe you ran over some kids and their puppies and you come out in the news. But otherwise no one has the right or power to find out because all citizens have a right to privacy: innocent until proven guilty and due process.

What we have here is a double standard in that public figures apparently don’t have that right, unless you toe the party line like Howard Stern or belong to the secular left priesthood like bill Clinton.

Most people are perfectly ok with that because most people are driven by ideology. I’m sure that soon no one will have any right to privacy unless they have a good credit score and vote for whoever happens to be in power at the time




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