No, Curt Schilling is not a free speech martyr.
Some angry talk these days from my conservative friends about ESPN's firing of famed pitcher Curt Schilling after Schilling posted some anti-transgender comments to social media the other day. "Progressive America is sending a message," National Review's David French wrote . "In the institutions it controls, there is no distinction between the personal and professional. Keep dissent to yourself. All your words belong to your boss." I don' think that's quite the lesson to draw here. This is what Curt Schilling posted: It's a distasteful, near-pornographic image — one that, even if it said something like AMERICA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD or VOTE FOR BERNIE SANDERS might've caused most people a bit of faint-heartedness. Now, understand too: Schilling had already been suspended last fall for THIS post: Too me, the sentiment is objectionable without being pornographic. This is the incident I might've criticized ESPN a