Are you implying that people can say whatever they wish without responsibility?
And you're callin' me obtuse?
Your analogy about calling a potential employer a goat lover is exactly 100% typical of the kind of spasmodic mental gestures (regurgitation) that so often parades as actual thought on this BBS that, by mere virtue of its repetition is somehow supposed to lend it, like, actual unassailable meaning. Well.... unh uh..
The guy who got canned basically has the 'zact same job as I do. We get lots of clients that we're not particularly thrilled about. But we give voice to them because we understand that clients deserve their say, and barring any laws to the contrary, can say whatever the hell they want. And we'll do it as professionally and as effectively as we can. That we don't agree with their message/product/etc. doesn't matter and doesn't enter into it.
There's a huge difference here.
Because the client in this case has nothing to do with what the designer said at this rally. And it reflected on the client in no way. There was no negative repurcussion nor connection to them.... It was just some guy saying stuff at a rally. I get loads of tickets to games, for example - should I be wary about rooting for the away team? Right....
No matter how you slice it, he got canned simply because the client disagrees with his opinion. And that's pretty much wannabe tyrannical bulchit lameness.
They didn't like what the guy said or what he believes in. They're jerks.
"Be careful what you say." - Ari Fleischer
This is what you are saying..... and I come at this from 100 different angles and still don't get it. Well, I do... but it aint pretty. It is:
""Freedom of Speech does not garuntee Freedom from consequences."
Which is retarded.
"Graduates had been warned during rehearsal on Thursday that they faced arrest if - as was rumored - some stood up and turned their backs on Bush during his speech." On the day of the commencement, an announcer told the graduates that "anyone demonstrating or heckling would be subject to expulsion and arrest. The announcer urged that Bush be greeted with a 'thunderous' ovation." (AP 6/14/02)
