> Trump’s posts included the racially charged phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” How is that racially charged?
The phrase has some history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the...
Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague
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#12Dear Mark Zuckerberg, Please use the power you have over the facebook platform, including that overseas in countries in Africa, and India to change the outcome of the US election this year so Trump loses. Then after the other countries too. With great power comes great responsibility, Zuck.
Do you really think Zuck reads HackerNews comments?
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#13> Trump’s posts included the racially charged phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” How is that racially charged?
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#14Dear Mark Zuckerberg, Please use the power you have over the facebook platform, including that overseas in countries in Africa, and India to change the outcome of the US election this year so Trump loses. Then after the other countries too. With great power comes great responsibility, Zuck.
Do you really think Zuck reads HackerNews comments?
It's rhetorical. There is a way to interpret what people ask of Zuckerberg with this line of thought & probably where there is inaction.
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#15> Trump’s posts included the racially charged phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” How is that racially charged?
It's a quote said in 1967 by Miami police Chief Walter Headley who was talking about how he will respond to protests against the police. For context, he also said he was against "young hoodlums, from 15 to 21, who have taken advantage of the civil rights campaign. ... We don't mind being accused of police brutality"
The Chief got the phrase from the guy who used firehoses and dogs against children during the Birmingham, AL protests.
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#16I think a key phrase here is "he was dismissed for publicly challenging a colleague’s silence". In other words, he publicly harassed a colleague who (for what could be any number of perfectly valid reasons) preferred not to publicly state their beliefs. That would seem to me to be an eminently reasonable reason to fire someone. If you go around publicly harassing your colleagues to publicly state their political opin…
Indeed -- here is some additional context that the article doesn't provide:
The fired employee Tweeted today:
>In the interest of transparency, I was let go for calling out an employee’s inaction here on Twitter. I stand by what I said. They didn’t give me the chance to quit [0]
He then specifically cited [1] the Tweet in question that was the cause:
>I asked @Vjeux to follow @reactjs's lead and add a statement of support to Recoil's docs and he privately refused, claiming open source shouldn't be political.
>Intentionally not making a statement is already political. Consider that next time you think of Recoil. [2]
This is specifically targeting an individual front-end engineer at FB, which in my own estimation crosses the line from criticism of executives or general policy, to specifically trying to instigate public outrage against a co-worker. If such actions were directed at me, I would definitely consider it as contributing to a hostile work environment. It all strikes me as a modern-day example of "Havel's greengrocer" [3].
[0] https://twitter.com/aweary/status/1271522288752455680
[1] https://twitter.com/aweary/status/1271531477209976832
[2] https://twitter.com/aweary/status/1267895488205869057
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless#Hav...
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#17Setting all the drama aside he was fired for harassing a coworker. The news article’s headline is misleading.
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#18There isn't a lot of information, for what it's worth I would be interested in how "public" his confrontation was, depending on that this could be more of a knee-jerk "this person is yikes" vs. sinister "don't stray from the party line"
Extremely public: https://twitter.com/aweary/status/1267895488205869057 - so public in fact, he brought the private messages out publicly as well.
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#20Dear Mark Zuckerberg, Please use the power you have over the facebook platform, including that overseas in countries in Africa, and India to change the outcome of the US election this year so Trump loses. Then after the other countries too. With great power comes great responsibility, Zuck.
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