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True. It's a balancing act but often times goes way too far and hurts innocent people. One of the most memorable examples:

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...

I don't think companies have to employ (or keep people employed) that harbor abhorrent views... problem is the "witch hunt" types that will make it their mission to get you fired over nothing.

You have to say/do something extremely egregious for your parents to be affected in the same way.

Unless your parents are doing the same thing it just won't happen in the US, officially or unofficially.

> Unless your parents are doing the same thing it just won’t happen in the US, officially or unofficially.

While it probably won’t extend to firing, people experience significant social consequence for behavior of family members in the US (the exception seems to be “not if you aren’t also doing the same thing your family member is targeted for” but “not if you fully join in the imposition of social consequences on your family member”.)

Do you have any examples of parents bearing burdensome official or unofficial consequences of something their child did where they weren't doing the same thing themselves?

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