All Muslims are not terrorists
All Trump supporters are Nazis
Congratulations western progressives
Edit: intentionally provocative comment - broader intent is to expose this thinking, which is unfortunately not given serious criticism.
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#22I am afraid to ask this but can someone explain the "nazi joke" to me?
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#23Is there any context available on what the employee was accused of doing?
The employee made comments on internal slack channels warning their coworkers in DC to be careful because there were a large number of nazis at the Capitol.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ery62NKUcAY6DlR?format=jpg&name=...
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#24> Our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub yesterday morning, Saturday, January 16th. You don't normally see consequences for senior officers for this kind of mistake. I would be curious to know who this person was and if they had any odd political affiliations.
When you fire a Jewish employee for (rightfully) calling out that Nazis were present at last weeks insurrection, but not folks who make jokes like “Hitler gave the Jews free healthcare” (per the Verge article another commenter posted), there better be consequences at the VP level
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#25I've just seen the screenshots from https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232766/github-employees...
You just shouldn't be speaking like that in a company Slack channel. Politics should really not be discussed at work, and especially not in a public Slack channel. It's not the right place for it. It makes me not want to work there if they are discussing politics all day in a public Slack channel
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#26> "Separating with an employee isn’t easy for anyone. When we do separate we want to protect and (sic) employee’s privacy so we do not provide details regarding separations.”
They weren't fired. They were separated.
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#27Well they left all the juicy parts out Context: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232766/github-employees... I can’t believe people talk like this on a work public channel.
I want to say: I don't talk as casually as this in a work channel, though I do sometimes discuss politics and current events. That's not because I don't think it's professional, but rather because I'm jewish and what happened to this employee feels like a very present threat.
It is a well-documented fact that neo-nazi hate groups were a significant presence in the riot and preceding "protest" at the capital. Stating that fact ultimately lead to a nazi-apologist coworker denying it, and then the jewish employee being fired.
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#28I am afraid to ask this but can someone explain the "nazi joke" to me?
It wasn’t a joke. It was quite literal. Stay safe, fellow employees, there are literal goose stepping Nazis in the streets.
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#29This is what should happen when an employee is unfairly targeted and fired. Accountability for the decisionmaker, an apology, and a re-hire.
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#30> Our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub yesterday morning, Saturday, January 16th. You don't normally see consequences for senior officers for this kind of mistake. I would be curious to know who this person was and if they had any odd political affiliations.
> Earlier this week, the company hosted an “empathy circle” to “build understanding with members of the team on things that affect us.” It did not go over well with employees. Maybe they got fired for this terrible idea
Isn't that standard fare for workplaces everywhere in the world now? Not that I like it much, but it seems to be the normal approach.