You really think with #metoo
for ex, non-legal precedent (Cosby, Weinstein) played no role? There was no cultural aspect to it?
Seems like you're relying on Online catch phrases like 'lawyer brain' and 'concern trolling' to deny some pretty obvious socio-political phenomena
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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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You didn't give a flying fuck when bosses routinely fired and blackballed women for being "difficult" But now those women testify that this was because of constant workplace sexual harassment and some of those bosses get fired by their own bosses Uh oh, cancel culture
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What incenses me is this special pleading that if socially progressive values get a foothold in society and enforced the way all of society's norms are enforced, suddenly it's a problem to have norms at all
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NOW suddenly when people get fired for being racists, firing people for any reason is wrong and labor solidarity means calling for every single person who has a job to keep their job
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NOW suddenly when people boycott a celebrity for being a transphobe, suddenly boycotts have gone from an essential tool of labor activism to petty schoolyard cruelty and the right thing to do is encourage all celebrities everywhere to prosper in their careers
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It's such fucking transparent shit It's so obvious that what you have a problem is isn't the firing or the canceling, it's the wokeness You just don't like progressive social values and think they go too far but you won't admit it so you turn it into a process dispute
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