"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
Also even a cursory look at SAG history will tell you that's NOT remotely what they're about.
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Yeah look all unions have to be partly about this by nature but "talent" unions especially are about "People who do the work should get the credit and the pay" and therefore equally "People who do NOT do the work should get bupkis"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SaddestRobots and
SAG especially has always been a very conservative union (in the classical use of that adjective) they were literally created to do the bare minimum for the fewest possible, and to work in concert with the studio system. A lot has changed, but not THAT much.
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Replying to @hyperdriveprof @SaddestRobots and
Yeah I mean if talent unions became a serious impediment to directors getting the people they actually want for a gig and getting rid of people they don't want to work with they would be quickly rolled over
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