"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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the actual cultural standard for what's "fireable" has a lot more to do with class than wishy-washy social mores. if she were a line cook or an agricultural worker, she'd be gone the second she said a word like "union" or "discrimination" or "minimum wage hike" or "i'm trans."
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Replying to @SaddestRobots @findfredhampton and
she also has, like, a giant, rather powerful union that represents her rights, and I am still waiting for any of these hot takes to mention them or their opinion about this process in any way
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SAG-AFTRA wouldn't have any leg to stand on in this case if they tried because there is no contract that was violated Her contract was up, and they simply chose not to offer her a new contract for new work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SaddestRobots and
She wasn't fired, she was just not rehired And the fact that acting, even at the highest levels of the business, is by its nature gig work in which you're constantly "job-hopping" is a serious labor rights issue for actors, though not one easily fixed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SaddestRobots and
I think most of us would agree it would be absurd for SAG-AFTRA to start some kind of campaign saying "Shows can't ever be canceled, characters can't ever be written out of shows, every sitcom should last long enough to put the whole cast's kids through college"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SaddestRobots and
But it's particularly absurd to indulge in special pleading for cases like this All the chuds suddenly deciding Cara Dune was an irreplaceable feature of the Mandalorian universe once her actress got openly racist enough to get canceled by the SJWs
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This is an actual strategy now If you're a celebrity of some kind, and you're gradually coming to realize that the audience doesn't like you and your coworkers don't want to work with you and the suits want to cut your losses Just say something offensive on Twitter
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SaddestRobots and
Once you're a publicly known racist then firing you suddenly becomes unconstitutional and all these people will fight to the death to defend your right to unconditional employment If you still do get fired you will instantly get a lucrative right-wing grifting gig
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