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Context matters. The workplace is a place where certain discussions are simply not allowed. For example discussing an ongoing lawsuit against the employer. It's
by d1zzy 9y ago
Context matters. The workplace is a place where certain discussions are simply not allowed. For example discussing an ongoing lawsuit against the employer. It's not about intention, your intention may be in the right place, it's about potential outcome, when things are taken out of context or simply interpreted by others in ways that result in creating a hostile work environment (or in the lawsuit case, taken out of context in a court of law).
- orblivion 9y agoThat seems perfectly reasonable by itself. But there are a couple issues here. Firstly Google as I understand it has pretty open discussion internally. But it turns out the company has a certain progressive standard for what's acceptable to say. Or maybe the law is relevant. Fine. But then they should be honest about it and not claim that people are free to express minority viewpoints (see Pichai's press release). Or assuming they are honest and just naive, snap out of the bubble for a second and realize just how common this supposedly unacceptable viewpoint is, and admit their bias and (again) clearly draw the line. Secondly, as I understand it, the lawsuit or at least part of it was based on a California law specifically prohibiting firing for political view. But apparently certain political views, such as agreeing with mainstream psychologists, don't really count as reasonable political views. To me this is opinion encoded into law and it's disturbing. (For the record I don't support the lawsuit on libertarian grounds. And part of that is that this whole thing is inherently messy)