The CEO's response was to sack the author. That seems quite sane to me.
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Replying to @Donoghue_K @GodDoesnt
The fact that this seems normal to so many people is exactly the problem.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
Very well then, I'm part of the problem. Tell me, just what is the problem? (Please don't say that it's the fact that I don't see it.)
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The problem is that our industry should be able to accommodate right-of-centre views, and possibly disagree them, while not sacking people.
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In any company there are lines you don't cross. Openly attacking the CEO's policy on HR will get you sacked almost anywhere.
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1) It wasn't open. It was a private forum for sharing views on diversity. 2) This doesn't say whether those policies are right or wrong.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Donoghue_K and
That argument isn't an ethical one. It would require us to justify sacking ppl for saying women should get equal pay if CEO disagreed.
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An explicitly anti-woman pay policy is illegal, no? But you could fairly be sacked if advocating women priests in a Catholic newspaper.
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Yes. Then we'd be very critical of Catholicism for its stance on women. Just as we're very critical of Google for its stance on biology.
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Fine, but a Catholic editor can fairly sack such a journalist. Google's "stance on biology" is endorsed by the CEO.
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The argument isn't about whether companies are allowed to discriminate against ideas they don't like. Its whether this is a good thing.
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