They fired an untalented employee who was also a jerk:
"ESPN is a private company; it had every right to fire Schilling because it didn’t like a few of his social-media posts. (And never mind what it let Keith Olbermann get away with all those years.)
The network can censor its own content as it chooses, too — however petty and childish that choice reveals it to be."
Right.
Which is why they're not Stalinist at all.
"But it’s a darned strange way to show 'progressive' values."
ESPN.
Formerly "Entertainment and Sports Programming Network."
Not a word about a devotion to progressive values, or even politeness and civility, for that matter.
Schilling was fired because his bosses told him to cut it out and he refused to cut it out. The transgender bathroom issue was not the first time. Though, yeah, if tolerance of transgender people qualifies as "progressive" values, then maybe ESPN just fired Schilling for this one-off.
Sure, Schilling has made enough money and he doesn't care. But Schilling's argument seems to be that his employer's insistence that he behave in a certain way is stifling and inappropriate ... even un-American.
What Schilling doesn't realize is that's what a job is. Everybody's job, all day, every day. Everybody who works for somebody else, anyway.
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