What’s the alternative to firing people for having bad opinions when their job is essentially “having opinions”? Like, say, New York Times columnist? The alternative is that they must be allowed to retain great influence regardless of lack of merit. Like … aristocracy? 
I mean, if your job is assistant to the regional manager at a small paper company and your bad opinion is that Antoine Walker was a better basketball player than Tim Duncan, of course you shouldn’t be fired.
But that doesn’t have anything to do with anything.
But that doesn’t have anything to do with anything.
For people whose job is essentially talking about their opinions in an effort to influence society, of course they should lose their job if their opinions are ruinously bad! We shouldn’t have an entitled elite class of Opinion-Havers who must never lose their influence.
It’s just a very silly that anyone pretends to believe this.
“We shouldn’t fire a columnist or podcaster for having bad opinions” = “we shouldn’t fire a cook for burning food all the damn time”
Opinions is the job! If they’re bad at it, they shouldn’t have the job!
Opinions is the job! If they’re bad at it, they shouldn’t have the job!
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