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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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
Were anti-racists in the 60s (MLK, SNCC, BPP) engaging corporations similar to today's blue wave 'anti-racists'? When MLK turned to economics and liberal racism, should he instead have asked how employment contract language could be a post-Jim-Crow weapon?
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Replying to @findfredhampton @nberlat
Nobody marched in the streets to get Gina Carano fired you disingenuous turd
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Gina Carano getting fired is symptomatic of a changing cultural environment The charge that BLM protests have "getting celebrities fired" as a primary goal is a ridiculous strawman
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I really hate this confected narrative about how activists today only care about silly superficial social issues that those serious grownup activists of the past wisely ignored It's garbage on both counts
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The people BLM activists largely want fired are police officers who've shot unarmed Black people For the same reason the 70s Civil Rights Movement wanted such people fired - as a prelude to large-scale policy change
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