Meet the People Who Lost Their Jobs for Not Sticking to the Leftist Narrative
A writer for a “Law & Order” spin-off and the play-by-play broadcaster for the NBA’s Sacramento Kings found themselves out of jobs after making social media posts this week that their bosses found incendiary or insensitive, highlighting a surge in such firings across many lines of work.
Firings over social media statements have become a common occurrence, but the tense environment of nationwide protests have made Twitter, Instagram and Facebook especially dangerous for those who want to remain employed.
Craig Gore, who has worked on the shows “S.W.A.T.” and “Chicago P.D.,” was fired Tuesday from the forthcoming “Law & Order: Organized Crime” spin-off because of since-deleted Facebook posts. In one — captioned “Curfew…” — he’s shown holding a rifle on his front porch, and in another, he threatens to shoot looters who come near his home.
Gore’s boss, “Law & Order” franchise creator Dick Wolf, did not warn or suspend him but went straight to firing, saying in a statement, “I will not tolerate this conduct, especially during our hour of national grief.”
A lawyer for Gore did not respond to a request for comment.
Grant Napear, longtime TV announcer for the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, was fired from his talk radio job and subsequently resigned on Tuesday from the team’s broadcast crew after he tweeted “ALL LIVES MATTER” to former Kings player DeMarcus Cousins when asked his opinion on the Black Lives Matter movement.
Hey!!!! How are you? Thought you forgot about me. Haven’t heard from you in years. ALL LIVES MATTER…EVERY SINGLE ONE!!! https://t.co/DfzKl3w0jm
— Grant Napear (@GrantNapearshow) June 1, 2020
Bonneville International, owner of the radio station that fired Napear, said in a statement, “The timing of Grant’s tweet was particularly insensitive.”
Napear later tweeted, “I’ve been doing more listening than talking the past few days,” and “I believe the past few days will change this country for the better!”
If it came across as dumb I apologize. That was not my intent. That’s how I was raised. It has been engrained in me since I can remember. I’ve been doing more listening than talking the past few days. I believe the past few days will change this country for the better! https://t.co/Gsh84BPBEk
— Grant Napear (@GrantNapearshow) June 1, 2020
And the punishment of voices outside the establishment narrative is not just for the prominent.
Many others from public-facing institutions and businesses have been sanctioned, demoted, suspended or fired for politically incorrect statements online in recent days.
The principal trombonist from the Austin Symphony Orchestra was let go after a string of Facebook comments, including one in which she said black looters “deserve what they get.”
The personal accounts of police are under especially tight scrutiny.
A Denver officer was fired Tuesday for writing “Let’s start a riot” as the caption to an Instagram picture of himself and two fellow officers smiling in riot gear.
An officer in Fulton, New York, posted an Instagram image that read, “Black lives only matter to black people unless they are killed by a white person” and found himself out of a job.
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