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The workplace has become hostile against certain thought and has fully adopted another. You will get fired for speaking against the entrenched thought. This is

by foxhop 6y ago

The workplace has become hostile against certain thought and has fully adopted another. You will get fired for speaking against the entrenched thought. This is exactly what was said in the above comment. If I said leave your politics and religion at the door and just do your job in a "safe space zoom call" or at a diversity committee, or at lunch, I'd be fired. The silent ones just want to do our jobs but increasingly the ones with political power inside institutions of work have the control to setup the stage for only one type of thought. I just want to do my job without going into these topics which occupy the majority of the companies all hands time and corporate communications.

rusk 6y ago
Fair point. I’ve heard of this kind of thing but have never experienced it firsthand really in any of the places I’ve worked so surely there must be alternative places to work if you’re not ideologically aligned? But if you go to work for someone you generally have to accept their outlook quietly or move on.
amalcon 6y ago
That's not new, though. It's just adopted a different school of thought than it used to (and not even universally). It wasn't that long ago that you could be fired for mentioning that you are not christian at the office christmas party.
- jimbokun 6y ago
  > It wasn't that long ago that you could be fired for mentioning that you are not christian at the office christmas party. Citation needed. ACLU would be all over that, religion is a protected class.
  - amalcon 6y ago
    I would cite the exact law that made religion a protected class in the american workplace: the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 56 years ago, this was happening often enough that Congress felt the need to act. This isn't a citation, but if you have a discussion with a jewish american over fifty years old, they likely have stories about this sort of thing.
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by foxhop 6y ago

rusk 6y ago

Fair point. I’ve heard of this kind of thing but have never experienced it firsthand really in any of the places I’ve worked so surely there must be alternative places to work if you’re not ideologically aligned? But if you go to work for someone you generally have to accept their outlook quietly or move on.

amalcon 6y ago

That's not new, though. It's just adopted a different school of thought than it used to (and not even universally). It wasn't that long ago that you could be fired for mentioning that you are not christian at the office christmas party.

jimbokun 6y ago
> It wasn't that long ago that you could be fired for mentioning that you are not christian at the office christmas party. Citation needed. ACLU would be all over that, religion is a protected class.
- amalcon 6y ago
  I would cite the exact law that made religion a protected class in the american workplace: the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 56 years ago, this was happening often enough that Congress felt the need to act. This isn't a citation, but if you have a discussion with a jewish american over fifty years old, they likely have stories about this sort of thing.

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