What I don’t get is why a company would judge these two things the same:
Someone using the n-word or other forms of hate speech.
Someone not exactly sad that a Nazi was shot. Are Nazis now a protected class? Also, from the way Taco and others talk, it’s provoking violence to call the Nazis and Nazi-adjacent out on their own ideology, I guess. That’s a wild take.
To paraphrase everyone’s basketball GOAT: “Bitch, nobody says no to me”. Err, sorry. To paraphrase the old everybody’s basketball GOAT: “Nazis buy sneakers too”
Actually taking a political stand potentially impacts sales. You and I think that anyone who would not want to buy a widget can go fuck themselves. Does EVERYONE at that company think so? What about their families. Lisa doesn’t get braces because you wanted to make a political statement?
Again, you and I probably both err more on the side of “fuck it, do what’s right”. But… the nazis feel the same way about anyone who would dare to acknowledge a trans person’s right to exist. Now Lisa doesn’t get braces because Johnny just wanted to masturbate on a trans person’s corpse and, really, how can that possibly be fair?
Which… gets to your second point. The world is REAL fucked up. And anyone with half a brain (who at all pays attention to politics) has expected this for some time now. Nazis ARE a protected class in the US (and increasingly parts of Europe…) at this point. So now letting Tom say something as fundamentally right as “the only good Nazi is a dead one” without any reprisal means the company faces that reprisal instead. You no longer get any government contracts and now you suddenly find the IRS actually cares about what you filed last year and…
Which changes it. It stops being Chuds versus Humans and instead becomes the people who are willing to put their necks on the line dragging down everyone who is just trying to survive.
Personally? You would need to be REAL fucking radical for me to penalize you at a company I have any control over. But… I would probably sign off on the “Our company believes that, regardless of beliefs, nobody should be executed in broad daylight and our hearts go out towards all those who are impacted”… after spending a few hours pissing off the lawyers to figure out exactly what I can get away with in there. And then I would pop on a VPN and do some REAL heavy shitposting and drinking.
And none of this is new. Back in the day, plenty of us would say things like “Dude, take off your fucking work shirt before you go to the punk show” and so forth.
What I don’t get is why a company would judge these two things the same:
To paraphrase everyone’s basketball GOAT: “Bitch, nobody says no to me”. Err, sorry. To paraphrase the old everybody’s basketball GOAT: “Nazis buy sneakers too”
Actually taking a political stand potentially impacts sales. You and I think that anyone who would not want to buy a widget can go fuck themselves. Does EVERYONE at that company think so? What about their families. Lisa doesn’t get braces because you wanted to make a political statement?
Again, you and I probably both err more on the side of “fuck it, do what’s right”. But… the nazis feel the same way about anyone who would dare to acknowledge a trans person’s right to exist. Now Lisa doesn’t get braces because Johnny just wanted to masturbate on a trans person’s corpse and, really, how can that possibly be fair?
Which… gets to your second point. The world is REAL fucked up. And anyone with half a brain (who at all pays attention to politics) has expected this for some time now. Nazis ARE a protected class in the US (and increasingly parts of Europe…) at this point. So now letting Tom say something as fundamentally right as “the only good Nazi is a dead one” without any reprisal means the company faces that reprisal instead. You no longer get any government contracts and now you suddenly find the IRS actually cares about what you filed last year and…
Which changes it. It stops being Chuds versus Humans and instead becomes the people who are willing to put their necks on the line dragging down everyone who is just trying to survive.
Personally? You would need to be REAL fucking radical for me to penalize you at a company I have any control over. But… I would probably sign off on the “Our company believes that, regardless of beliefs, nobody should be executed in broad daylight and our hearts go out towards all those who are impacted”… after spending a few hours pissing off the lawyers to figure out exactly what I can get away with in there. And then I would pop on a VPN and do some REAL heavy shitposting and drinking.
And none of this is new. Back in the day, plenty of us would say things like “Dude, take off your fucking work shirt before you go to the punk show” and so forth.