Conservatives: - believe that companies should be able to do what they want in hiring. For example, a Christian company receiving federal grants should be allowed to discriminate. - think it's an outrage that a company with progressive values fired someone who challenged them.
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Usually conservatives will respond to this by trying to flip the above statement and say that the real problem is liberal hypocrisy.
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The thing is: I don't know any liberals who think the RNC is required to keep a liberal who starts challenging the Republican platform. Companies are allowed to have ideological values and hire/fire people on the basis of those values.
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Progressives object to firing people on the basis of characteristics that they don't believe they can control.
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This is why conservatives spent so much time promoting the bogus idea that being gay was a "choice". They understand that there's a much higher bar for firing someone on the basis of something they cannot control.
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Liberals tend to trust people when they say that something is an innate trait, and therefore right hard against discrimination on the basis of these traits. Conservatives distrust what people claim they experience and fight for companies to be allowed to discriminate.
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But nobody believes that being a conservative is an innate trait. So no, liberals aren't being hypocritical by arguing that Damore should be fired but Christian bakers shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against gay couples.
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With regard to "discriminating against white males", if you want to prove that a group was discriminated against, you should start by showing that the group in question is *underrepresented*.
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Representation is completely separate from discrimination. This is a redefinition of the term.
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