Few have done more than Sam Altman to defeat Trump.
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Is it ok to fire (or whatever word) a visiting professor for supporting the wrong candidate, but not a regular one?
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(Do you even know what a part time partner at YC does?)
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not to get all Godwin but would it be ok to do business with someone who helped Hitler?
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is there some instance in which you'd say "I won't do business with you"? If so, there must be a line to be crossed.
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Trump would revert marriage equality and ban all abortions. That's a pretty big deal.
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surely Thiel is an advisor, not an employee to be fired. Nike sometimes distances itself from certain athletes based on behavior.
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Being an employee gives you legal protections against being fired, but surely that's separate from the moral question.
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It gives you moral protections, too.
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So would it be ok for a group of *peers* like university faculty to fire one who supported the wrong candidate?
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yet again, the false equivalency of "fire" versus "distance yourself from".
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You keep saying "distance," but you're using it to mean what people would colloquially call firing someone.
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Would you just email me please? This is not a good medium for real conversation.
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I defer to
@tqbf because I don't have strong feelings on this, other than "firing" a billionaire is kind of a ridiculous concept - 6 more replies
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