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> “Most folks are afraid to discuss anything remotely political at work.” There are plenty of other places to talk politics, religion, or share personal opinions. Work is best kept for work.
Does google still have employees who spend all their days in the chat rooms advocating for their lifestyle choices while on the clock?
Excellent! A company is a place to work, not do politics. I've left jobs due to overly woke colleagues who made every single meeting into a crusade against white men. In my current company, political discussion is forbidden, and I am very happy about that. People who love politics should go into politics, and leave their jobs. Plenty of public sector organizations who only talk politics for them, and peace of mind fo…
"If you love talking about professional sports you should leave your job and play professional sports." See how genius that sounds? People can be interested in- or passionate about things and not do it as a day job.
You can advocate for a politics-free workplace. Or a distractions-free workplace. But you have to realize that from its early days Google was supposed to be less a job and more a lifestyle. Partly because it attracted talent, mostly because it would keep people in the office slinging code. You can't push developers to spend 14 hours a day in the cube (or beanbag chair or whatever) and also expect them to remain hermetically sealed from the outside world.
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The largest cancelling brigade in the history of cancel culture was done by the right after the Charlie Kirk shooting, where more than 600 people were doxxed and lost their jobs for "social media posts that celebrated Kirk's assassination or were seen as disparaging of his legacy". [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprisals_against_commentators...
If a person celebrated a political assassination, I wouldn't want anything to do with them either, and I surely would not employ them.
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The largest cancelling brigade in the history of cancel culture was done by the right after the Charlie Kirk shooting, where more than 600 people were doxxed and lost their jobs for "social media posts that celebrated Kirk's assassination or were seen as disparaging of his legacy". [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprisals_against_commentators...
That's self-inflicted. If a person celebrated a political assassination, I wouldn't want anything to do with them either, and I surely would not employ them.