I don't need your permission to fly, bro.
Moreover: I've never said dude should've been fired. But nice assumption.
Let's try to break it down in terms that don't cloud your judgment. If I say, I deserve x, you'd be right to be skeptical of said claim, on grounds of motivated self-interest, especially if I belonged to group y that had always received a disproportionately high share of x; you'd be rightfully less skeptical if someone who belonged to group z, a group that had always received a disproportionately low share of x, said, He deserves x as much as I deserve x; indeed, we all deserve x.