Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague

Post by np_tedious » Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 5:44 PM UTC

messick wrote: post #306

dvt wrote: post #45

I'm so over this political posturing. I can't wait for ~2 weeks when everyone's going to go back to their lives like nothing happened (remember #OccupyWallStreet?). People that actually change the world don't need to advertise it on Twitter. I have friends that volunteer in Watts and Compton every other weekend (and have done so for years ) that don't need to share it on social media. I can't help but think that this…

Interesting that you choose Watts and Compton. Almost like you choose two random neighborhoods you believe to be disadvantaged. How exactly do your friends volunteer in this two places that just happen to show up in Dr Dre songs from the early 90’s?

Post by toyg » Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 7:48 PM UTC

DenisM wrote: post #335

toyg wrote: post #322

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I disagree. With that outlook, we would never have had the social movements that changed Europe for the better in the XIX and XX century. In modern terms, stuff like BLM influences who your colleagues are, how you treat them, and how you react to their demands for fairness.

The world would be a better place if both Russia and Germany kept a lid on the practice of pressuring people into a political stance in the first half of the 20th century. OTOH MLK did not have his followers pressure coworkers - they kept it in the public, not behind doors.

Post by majani » Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 10:36 PM UTC

thrwaway69 wrote: post #249

_bxg1 wrote: post #144

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The thing is these really are issues that need to be talked about and addressed, and they really have fallen on deaf ears in the past because of lack of popular force. The people in charge just keep posturing, brushing it off, saying "yeah yeah we'll get to it", and waiting for the news cycle to move on. Nothing ever changes. But the problem is that society at large, especially on the internet, apparently just sucks…

Sometimes I wonder if answer to all of these problems is to divide lands based on ideology, politics and other factors. People are then given a choice to migrate between them every 5 years or so. Nations shouldn't be so big and migrating shouldn't be that hard. Just divide and divide until the group of people stop complaining. Racists can live with racists. Progressives can live with progressives.

Post by alslsls » Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 11:51 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #322

DenisM wrote: post #164

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Politics at the workplace should be kept personal. Politics between colleagues should not be done at all .

I disagree. With that outlook, we would never have had the social movements that changed Europe for the better in the XIX and XX century. In modern terms, stuff like BLM influences who your colleagues are, how you treat them, and how you react to their demands for fairness.

Post by notSupplied » Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 12:25 AM UTC

pryce wrote: post #315

renaudg wrote: post #137

“I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, there is this sense sometimes of: ‘The way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people, and that’s enough.” “Like, if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself, cause, ‘Man, you see how woke I w…

There's an important conversation to be had over how activism should operate, in which areas, about what's effective, what turns people off and leaves them hostile, and what measures are justified on what issues, versus what measures are completely disproportionate. That said, this person stood up for their principles (rightly or wrongly) and lost their job because of it. Your quotation about people "casting stones"…