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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It has ALWAYS been the case that most employers can fire most employees for any fucking reason, or no reason It has always been ESPECIALLY the case that famous people have "morals clauses" in their contracts saying they can be fired for making their employer "look bad"
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There has been no time in all of history where this was not true and it's impossible to imagine this not being true, barring some actual draconian law against firing people for "moral" reasons that would probably keep companies from ever hiring them in the first place
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It wasn't that long ago that it was routine to see actors get dropped from TV shows for cursing in public, or being accused of cheating on their partners, or just "coming off as an arrogant jerk" in one too many interviews It's how the business works
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None of this is actually empowering bosses to do anything they didn't already have the power to do, and that they didn't already constantly do If the needle moves towards firing people for coming off as racist because racism is now unpopular, that's 100% a positive shift
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
Is this not literally an attempt to empower bosses to do something they didn't already have the power to do (in the name of anti-racism)?pic.twitter.com/9m8NqaoQbA
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No, it isn't You've bizarrely misinterpreted a discussion of "What is a good reason to fire people" as a discussion of "Should bosses have the POWER to fire people" That power is and always has been near-absolute
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And even more weirdly, mistaken a case of a system that is usually unjust for once responding to public pressure towards justice, for an instance of new injustice.
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If a bigot loses a job, justice (ie lives of poor/marginalized) is unaffected. If public pressure promotes such actions, justice remains unaffected Given history & nature of US sys racism, if racial justice is seen as partisan, Dem > Rep, social justice is affected, negatively.
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Lmao and there it is The reason cancelation is bad is it makes Republicans sad, and making Republicans sad crushes your hopes of a "bipartisan" populist movement
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Sorry that ship sailed a long time ago At the very latest, it sailed when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act
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Replying to @arthur_affect @findfredhampton and
I don't understand the argument that the best way to fight bigotry is to work with the bigots for "bipartisanism's sake". It's very obviously and transparently a self-defeating motive because a bigot isn't going to work against themselves, they'll just work to sabotage you.
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Replying to @Zendervai @findfredhampton and
A lot of people are really fixated on this narrative that the Democrats have lost the "white working class" by talking too much about racism and that no true leftist movement can prosper unless they get those imaginary blue-collar Archie Bunkers back in the coalition
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