Netflix fires organizer of trans employee walkout

Post by da39a3ee » Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 11:26 PM UTC

micromacrofoot wrote: post #83

da39a3ee wrote: post #75

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The difference being that pro-gay activists are not doing any of the bad and absurd things that pro-trans activists are doing: attacking freedom of speech, denying the biological basis of sex in the ape species Homo sapiens, ending people's careers who disagree with them, attacking feminism, damaging pro-gay movements, canceling people, etc. You don't get to assume that people aren't angry about the behavior of pro-t…

this is basically the “angry black man” defense - just because some people aren’t protesting in a way you approve of doesn’t mean it’s ok to hate the group indiscriminately

Post by elgernon » Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 11:35 PM UTC

mkr-hn wrote: post #107

dnsco wrote: post #104

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> Furthermore pretty much everybody in every non-western country is a TERF. Many non-western nations traditionally had third gender (Hijras in India, Kathoey in Thailand, many Native American Two-Spirit Identities). When these places were colonized these identities were used as a justification, and generally punished harshly. The argument that "only people in western nations tolerate this", is bad-faith, and doesn't…

I've been excited to see a growing movement by indigenous people to reclaim their ancient understandings of identity in general, and gender in particular now that colonizers have lost the energy they had for suppression in past decades and centuries. A lot of it is just gone , but the nice thing about a living culture is it can rebuild and recover and build new concepts in the gaps.

Post by fleddr » Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 11:37 PM UTC

micromacrofoot wrote: post #76

fleddr wrote: post #64

This is how art, comedy and free speech dies. You take the hyper-sensitive, outrage-addicted Twitter culture as measuring stick for what is appropriate. Whilst Netflix did resist a full take-down, they still took a knee. Don't bow to the unreasonables, just publish and don't explain anything. And indeed, fire the anti-employees, whom sabotage your business. You're offended? So what? Grow up. Meanwhile hit show "Squid…

this is so hyperbolic, people have been saying political correctness is killing comedy for decades and it’s fine - louis ck literally ejaculated in front of women without their consent and is still touring and doing comedy

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 11:54 PM UTC

khalilravanna wrote: post #26

It feels disingenuous to use this as the headline as it implies they were fired for organizing the walkout instead of for leaking internal data: A Netflix spokesperson confirmed the employees’ dismissal. “We have let go of an employee for sharing confidential, commercially sensitive information outside the company,” they said.

Post by Graffur » Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 11:56 PM UTC

jmcgough wrote: post #41

AJRF wrote: post #25

I just watched it. I don’t feel like I live in a real world anymore. This whole outrage is manufactured and there are so many resellers. Dave spends the last 15 minutes of the show telling a heartbreaking story of how he made friends with a transgender woman, and invited her to open his show for him, she sucked but then when she was being herself during the show and afterwards backstage she had everyone howling with…

He said that he's on "team TERF" and compared being trans to wearing black face. It's not "manufactured", there are a lot of people upset that he's punching down against a vulnerable community.