He is a twat, but should not have been fired

The Daily Mail reports:

A Politico reporter who called Pope Benedict XVI a ‘homophobic pedophile protector and Hitler Youth alumnus’ after he died last month appears to have been fired, according to his LinkedIn profile and personal website.

Eric Geller, who wrote about cybersecurity for Politico for more than six years, caused controversy after sharing a news story about late Pope’s death on Twitter with an offensive caption on December 31, hours after his passing was announced.

‘Homophobic pedophile protector and Hitler Youth alumnus dead at 95,’ Geller said in full, in a since-deleted tweet.

The tweet showed that Geller is a dick. Abusing someone who has just died is crass. Insulting the former head of a religion with 1.3 billion adherents who has just died is moronic. And slandering him by insinuating he chose to join Hitler Youth (he was forced to) shows huge prejudice.

But none of the above stops him from reporting on cybersecurity. The response to his tweet should have been more tweets. Not his employer sacking him.