Verbal abuse is not a crime, it largely falls under freedom of speech. He did not enact any type of force against the person unless you want to count his voice resonating against their eardrums as adequate force. He voiced his opinion in a belligerent manner toward someone and the government is charging him for voicing said opinion equals "thought police". Being in fear of possibly getting criminally charged for saying something that is viewed as "unpopular" is exactly the use of a thought police system, otherwise there would be nothing to fear. Freedom of Speech protects most speech, the exclusion would be in the nature of yellling "fire".

Well I have a different view of what a private company can and can't do compared to you Alpha. In a true free society people can not only believe whatever they like, no matter how despicable, but they also can hire or not hire, whomever for whatever reason - including race, sex, religion, etc. That is, if they are a private company. A private company should not be under the control of the government. If the owner decides not to males so be it, but they would have to deal with the consequences stemming from consumers and/or business associates. It's letting the people make choices themselves instead of being shepherded.

As for the progressive part of my prior post I guess it needed elaboration though I felt it was clear enough. By tolerant of "progressive" views only, I meant that. Non-progressive views, like American Conservatism are not tolerated in the same light or at all by "progressives". When people say "be tolerant" they are thinking of being tolerant of progressive views, but to be truly tolerant a person must accept that even deplorable views will be held by some people & even though a person may strongly disagree with them they will defend that person, whom believes in something really out there, their right to keep on believing that and to have the freedom to speak out their beliefs without fear of reproach from the government. However, that does not mean that a medium must be provided.