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Looks like you're going to troll with a throwaway account, but I'll bite. Does he express his views at work or somewhere else? If he's professional at work, I

• throwaway-hn123 10y ago
  It's just a thought experiment - not sure why you need to be talking about trolling. So, if this person is professional at work, then you come home, and watching the news, you see a report about a neo-nazi parade, and there this person is, literally on-screen, shouting "burn the niggers*. Is that also ok? Of course, this is an extreme example, I'm just interested in understanding where the line is, or indeed if there is one, in the minds of people who think it's ok to express any opinion without there being any consequence.
  • 67726e 10y ago
    I'm talking about trolling because you're using a throwaway account. That's a bright red-flag if I've ever seen one. That said, is he professional at work? If he does his job and doesn't discuss shit at work, that's his business. I'm not going to fire someone because of personal beliefs. Yes, that's an extreme example but I'm not going to play arbiter of beliefs because we are quickly going to get into a slippery slope of defining where a line is, who decides, etc. Hell, if half the folks on Facebook had it their way I might not have a job simply because I prefer Trump to Hillary. You see where I'm going with this?
    • throwaway-hn123 10y ago
      You're welcome to assume anything you want about the account and its nature, I simply don't care. If it's my personal belief that I am duty bound to try and get this person fired and find legal ways to ruin their life would you be supportive of that? None of this activity would be carried out at work.
      • 67726e 10y ago
        By it's very nature, trying to get him fired involves work. If you're trying to cause strife in the workplace that's fireable in my book.
        • throwaway-hn123 10y ago
          It's interesting how much of a safe space some people want work to be, isn't it?
          • 67726e 10y ago
            See, this is where it's clear that you're trolling to push your agenda. I don't discriminate at work, full stop. I don't care what you do or who you screw so long as it doesn't affect folks at work. The second you start pushing your political agenda at work it becomes a problem. It has nothing to do with a "safe space" and in fact it is in no way a safe space. Work is not a place to talk politics and push your ideals onto society. We all know these "safe spaces" are just a place for a given "side" to espouse their ideology without having to defend it from rational discourse.