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Let's say that I work at a company that has employees who are married gay people, and also a few transgender employees. What is politics in that case?
by greglindahl 10y ago
Let's say that I work at a company that has employees who are married gay people, and also a few transgender employees. What is politics in that case?
- flukus 10y agoThe same as it would be if the gay couple or transgendered people weren't there.
- greglindahl 10y agoI'm mystified as to what this means. Let's say I'm trying to decide what Google's policy is about travel to a state where transgender people are required to use a bathroom where they look like they're perverts. Is that politics, or ethics, or what?
- flukus 10y agoWhy would they need a policy specifically for that and not a generic one that encompasses all situations where employees may be discriminated against?
- greglindahl 10y agoGoogle doesn't have a generic policy that encompasses all situations where an employee might be discriminated against? What? They do. The point of calling out this particular law in North Carolina is that this law claims to not be discriminatory, but it actually is. A generic policy requires interpretations. But to be relevant to this thread, is this "politics" that a company should avoid?
- lacampbell 10y agoI don't find the presence of married gay or transgender people to be an overt political statement. On some level it is political of course, but only on the pedantic reductionist level of "everything is a political statement". If you want to go down that route, fine, but I won't be joining you.
- greglindahl 10y agoI'm trying to figure out whether Google should express opinions about state laws that unfairly affect their employees... is that "political", according to this pledge?
- lacampbell 10y agoI dunno. Is it political for me to be required to travel to Red China when I'm an anti-communist? I'm no better equipped than you are to find out where the line should be drawn.
- greglindahl 10y agoThe overwhelming majority of Americans agree that China is an authoritarian state, whereas there's considerable disagreement about gay marriage, despite the Supreme Court saying it's legal. So I don't think many people would agree that it's a similar line.