I was sympathetic until I read this: “I realized that my team simply did not have much to say on the issue of police brutality. This was odd—mostly because I’d

I was sympathetic until I read this: “I realized that my team simply did not have much to say on the issue of police brutality. This was odd—mostly because I’d watched them debate countless other topics, newsworthy and not, with a proud deftness and alacrity,” the memo reads. “From disappearing Malaysian airplanes to the spread of Ebola to the marriages and divorces of celebrities I’d never heard of, my teammates always had something to say about everything. But when it came to the violent policing of black bodies, they were silent.” It is perfectly reasonable for employees to choose to abstain from discussing fraught political subjects at work.