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Punishing abusive employees is not illegal, and neither is declining an invitation to speak at a conference.

• sonnyblarney 8y ago
  "Punishing abusive employees is not illegal" Certainly not. But it's illegal to define abuse in terms of gender or race, though, i.e. the policy is to fire people who are abusing their 'privilege'. An HR busybody could feasibly interpret this to mean "a white person yelled at a black person, which is an abuse of racial privilege, ergo, we're condemning/firing them" - or something along those lines. My point is that the definition of 'privilege' is going to be arbitrary, probably based on race, gender etc. and therefore illegal. And it's certainly not illegal to decline an invitation to a conf., but it might be discriminatory to decline an invitation to some conference because they didn't adhere to some kind of ideological version of equality, i.e. 'we're not going to the gaming conf. because most of the speakers are men'. These are important issues, we need nuance, I think that the chart I referred to lacks such nuance and is to intersectionally heavy handed. We all want people to get along, but that doesn't mean any policy with that intent will have a positive effect.