Well she was obviously creating a hostile workplace then. She believed she could express herself, and deserves to be labeled an enemy of the state by a British labor board for it.
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Replying to @quollhorreur @IAmDeathRay and
The tribunal was going to find against Forstater in any case, since she had no right to a contracting job. Forstater's cult beliefs were never the problem. The judge discusses them here only because Forstater kept talking about them...at the tribunal!
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Replying to @WaPoMax @quollhorreur and
The tribunal had the right to decide that Maya's beliefs were protected speech. Instead, they went full Mao.
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
That's not what the concept of "protected speech" means, and it has never, ever, ever been the law that you cannot get fired from a private sector job by an employer who doesn't like the things you say
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Replying to @arthur_affect @WaPoMax and
The board had the right to decide if her opinions were a protected "philosophy", a la religion or politics. Instead, they dragged her like she was in a struggle session.
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
Yeah because literally anything can be a "political position" "Black people are genetically inferior and should be placed in a subordinate position in society" is a political position, one that millions of people hold
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IAmDeathRay and
Absolutely. It's a political position, and a private belief you can legitimately hold, just as atheists can believe God-botherers are morons. Just don't tweet all day about it, Maya.
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Replying to @WaPoMax @arthur_affect and
YOU are tweeting about the topic. Should your boss have the right to fire you. Also: can I find out where you work? Maybe your boss SHOULD be brought into this conversation. Hey, free speech, right?
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
Yeah this isn't gonna work on me because I have been very clear on not condemning "getting people fired" as some kind of universal liberal principle A society where it was - i.e. one with truly guaranteed employment - would look radically different from ours in every respect
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Getting people fired is in itself neutral It is a good thing when bad people get fired for good reasons It is a bad thing when good people get fired for bad reasons It takes a particularly childish view of morality to call this "hypocrisy"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IAmDeathRay and
It's a position without any nuance, if thing x is bad it must be bad in all permutations, if thing y is good it must be good in all permutations. Which I wouldn't even call childish, most children are smarter than that. It's failed morality.
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