I've given this a lot of thought, and I believe this would crush the cancel culture we're seeing if paired with other laws. However, I'd like to verify if this sounds like a good idea or not, so I'm posting this for feedback.
I believe only merit and failure to do as requested should be grounds for firing/removal. What we've been seeing is that people are getting sacrificed to the rage mob for wrongthink, which has nothing to do with merit or failing to do as requested.
Therefore, if ideological differences is what's being misused to get people fired, ideology needs to become a protected class. This would at least allow people to contest being fired if they can find proof that someone invoked differences in ideology to cause the firing to occur.
I doubt it would entirely fix it, but it's a quick and easy bandage to push out and it's better than doing nothing.
Maybe we make the individual a protected class, like the founders intended? No special rights or laws for any group.
The problem there is, how do you enforce it or tell a line has been crossed? If a company lays off a person because they're facing economic hardship, if "individual" was a protected class, every person laid off could challenge the job loss as being done because of their status as an individual. Would the company need to prove for every employee that those employees were statistically the least-valuable among all employees they could have removed?
These specific words or exceptions makes it easy for both the person challenging and the company defending the challenge. The person needs to invoke the specific instance they believe they were wrongfully fired for and find evidence of that instance being true, and the company needs to prove that the individual had failed a request or lacked merit.
Every individual could challenge it. We kind of already have that with unemployment insurance, which you cannot claim under certain circumstances when you were let go or fired.
Sounds good up until you consider that ideology can include anything
Oh, I know it'd protect a lot of people I would never want to work with, but that's the cost of making sure capitalism continues to work by merit. If a person is very vocal about their ideology and it rubs everyone the wrong way, their superior should tell them to stop talking about it at work. If they continue, they've failed to do as requested and thus firing is valid.
Well imagine that someone's ideology endorses theft... you wouldn't want to hire them
There's a difference between someone having an ideology endorsing theft vs. someone actually stealing from you.
Thoughts dictate actions
Yes, but they aren't actually actions. A huge problem in our society is the conflation and faux-equivilence of thoughts to actions.
Words and thoughts aren't actions. Saying mean things to someones isn't the same as laying your hands on them. The Left does this constantly.
To some extent I agree, but if you have someone literally telling you they want to rob, cheat, and steal & you ignore it, don't expect any sympathy when you become a victim of their ideology