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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Since many people are arguing with this tweet (quite cogently too) I wanted to expand on it a little.

      4 replies 2 retweets 24 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      The distinction between ideas/actions is blurry but I do think that it's worth judging people by how they behave primarily.

      28 replies 3 retweets 27 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      To say that memo by itself isn't fireable doesn't mean there shouldn't be consequences: lots of remedies short of firing available.

      16 replies 1 retweet 29 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Possible remedies include demotion, stripping of any hiring duties, a public memo from Google distancing itself from him, diversity lessons

      28 replies 2 retweets 21 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      To me the question is not so much about "market place of ideas" (which is silly) but of employer power. How much power should employers have

      14 replies 2 retweets 51 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Under current system of at will employment, employers (aside from special milieus with tenure or unions) have pretty easy time firing people

      9 replies 4 retweets 37 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      One consequence of at will employment is that there is no workplace free speech rights (with few exceptions). That's not a good thing.

      20 replies 15 retweets 69 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Some people who get fired for ideas have shitty ideas. Certainly that's true of Damore & his crap memo.

      13 replies 8 retweets 38 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      But other people get denied employment for ideas well worth defending. Colin Kaepernick being prime example

      26 replies 15 retweets 157 likes
    10. 𝕽𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖑 "back at it again" 𝕿𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖊𝖘‏ @torrespolisci 7 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Kaepernick's peaceful protest of institutionalized racism is comparable to Damore suggesting his colleagues were inferior? Are you serious?

      3 replies 2 retweets 39 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Aug 2017
      Replying to @torrespolisci

      I said Damore's ideas are shitty & Kaepernick's are admirable. But power to fire over shitty ideas is also power to fire over noble ideas.

      8:08 PM - 7 Aug 2017
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        1. Richard T.‏ @Miceelf88 7 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @torrespolisci

          Murder is a bad action and volunteering at a soup kitchen is a good one. If murder is a crime how soon before they come for the soup guy?

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        1. Secret Social TZ Watcher  👽‏ @secretsocio5 7 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @torrespolisci

          No. Please stop "both sides"-ing this.

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        1. Sadhana Gupta‏ @sadhana456 7 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @torrespolisci

          These were not abstract ideas in a vacuum-these explicitly made it difficult for his organization and management to function effectively.

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        2. ilias  🔯 ♿️ 🌈‏ @ififorget 7 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @torrespolisci

          That's...I mean just wrong. Power to fire for dangerous ideas =/= power to fire for controversial ideas.

          1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
        3. ilias  🔯 ♿️ 🌈‏ @ififorget 7 Aug 2017
          Replying to @ififorget @HeerJeet @torrespolisci

          Protesting and bigotry are not comparable things. They are not similar. Your take is a bad take, dude.

          1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
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        1. melissa “cancel student debt” byrne‏Verified account @mcbyrne 7 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @torrespolisci

          Kap didn't violate EEOC. The google bro (gro?) did

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        2. Cringes of the Future‏ @PersonalBeavis 7 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @torrespolisci

          Cringes of the Future Retweeted wint

          https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312 …

          Cringes of the Future added,

          wint @dril
          the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
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        3. Cringes of the Future‏ @PersonalBeavis 7 Aug 2017
          Replying to @PersonalBeavis @HeerJeet @torrespolisci

          cc @EveryoneIsDril

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        1.  🖖  🏳️‍🌈 Trixie‏ @TrixieDalek 7 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @torrespolisci

          His ideas are not shitty. He believes people in his employ are less human than he is. This is discrimination. It's not free speech.

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