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That's a gross oversimplification of the issue. Would the same outcome have happened if this guy had posted his manifesto on a blog outside the office, rather

That's a gross oversimplification of the issue. Would the same outcome have happened if this guy had posted his manifesto on a blog outside the office, rather than distributing it to colleagues at work? Would the same outcome have happened if the various arguments in the manifesto had been individual articles on a personal blog over a period of time? Would the same outcome have happened if the manifesto hadn't been explicitly critical about diversity hiring at Google, and rather had been generally critical about EEO law at the state and federal level? There are so many ways this situation could have been different, but the lesson you choose to take from it is "don't express your opinion in public"? That's what really explains Trump.

dictum 9y ago
> Would the same outcome have happened if this guy had posted his manifesto on a blog outside the office, rather than distributing it to colleagues at work? Yes. The only thing that could have prevented his firing was to have never published it under his real name (and this is not completely safe). Since it's an internal issue, I think he did the right thing in this aspect: he published it in the internal forum, instead of dragging the dirty laundry for the world to see. Most codes of conduct explictly apply all their conditions to venues that are not related to the project itself, so I doubt the outrage would be different if he published it elsewhere, under a pseudonym, and was IDed later.
ordu 9y ago
> That's a gross oversimplification of the issue. It is the way most people think. The only way of thinking available for them. So this conclusions is exactly what they draw from the story. > the lesson you choose to take from it is "don't express your opinion in public"? That's what really explains Trump. I'm not sure that Const-me took _this_ lesson, but the point is: the most people took this lesson. The reality works this way. Therefore this lesson is the true one, it is like self-fulfilling prophecy. If enough people belive in it, than it is true.

dictum 9y ago

> Would the same outcome have happened if this guy had posted his manifesto on a blog outside the office, rather than distributing it to colleagues at work? Yes. The only thing that could have prevented his firing was to have never published it under his real name (and this is not completely safe). Since it's an internal issue, I think he did the right thing in this aspect: he published it in the internal forum, instead of dragging the dirty laundry for the world to see. Most codes of conduct explictly apply all their conditions to venues that are not related to the project itself, so I doubt the outrage would be different if he published it elsewhere, under a pseudonym, and was IDed later.

ordu 9y ago

> That's a gross oversimplification of the issue. It is the way most people think. The only way of thinking available for them. So this conclusions is exactly what they draw from the story. > the lesson you choose to take from it is "don't express your opinion in public"? That's what really explains Trump. I'm not sure that Const-me took _this_ lesson, but the point is: the most people took this lesson. The reality works this way. Therefore this lesson is the true one, it is like self-fulfilling prophecy. If enough people belive in it, than it is true.