"capitalism is bad, so it's bad when corporations fire fascists" is not a smart take.
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Replying to @nberlat
How about capitalism is bad, so it's bad to lobby/empower corporations to fire people for offenses that were previously not fireable? Especially if that impulse to call the manager substitutes for a policy agenda that would better address root causes in the area of offense.
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Replying to @findfredhampton @nberlat
We live in an at-will employment economy, there's no such thing as "offenses that were not previously fireable"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
There may be some truth there strictly legally, but I mean in the sense of contemporary cancel cultures. The threhold and stakes for causing offense have changed, and those offended now increasingly respond by involving (and empowering) employers.
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Replying to @findfredhampton @nberlat
This is exactly what people were saying about "lawyer brain" Outside of an actual courtroom, the idea of "precedent" and "case law" is mostly bullshit Trying to label everything as a "trend" or a "slippery slope" or a "culture" is concern trolling
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
You really think with
#metoo
for ex, non-legal precedent (Cosby, Weinstein) played no role? There was no cultural aspect to it?
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Replying to @findfredhampton @nberlat
The idea that
#MeToo
has given bosses more power to fire employees than they had before is some fucking repulsive backwards logic
You know half of the most famous #MeToo
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
It's obvious that today, culturally, managers are both more empowered and more expected to regulate the non work-related conduct of employees than ever before. What do you feel is at stake on this question that leads you to deny it so stridently?
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Replying to @findfredhampton @nberlat
"Culturally empowered" Fucking bullshit Meaningless
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1) Buzzfeed doesn't have to approve of a boss firing someone for them to have the power to do it, and for this to be incredibly common For most of history it's been taboo to fire an employee for not sleeping with you; in the 70s it was made explicitly illegal; still very common
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2) Even if you did need to be "culturally empowered" in order to fire someone, that's always existed too Jfc what fucking universe do you people live in Morals clauses in actors' contracts weren't forced by tyrannical CEOs down the public's throat
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The public enthusiastically called for them Some actress gets dragged through the mud for being a homewrecker, everyone in Peoria starts screaming "Get her off the screen! Think of the children!"
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This discourse pisses me off so much because getting fired because people don't like you is a universal, constant, inescapable feature of having a job of any kind under capitalism But NOW it's suddenly a PROBLEM because it's "woke"
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