Before you're dead, yeah. I don't think it's controversial to say that in a public arena (for example, an office) you have to be careful with subjects like pol

Before you're dead, yeah. I don't think it's controversial to say that in a public arena (for example, an office) you have to be careful with subjects like politics and religion, and with humour. And that's always been true. And social media extends that public arena, and magnifies misunderstanding. It's interpersonal discourse with something like 90% of a person's actual ability to communicate stripped out. So I think people have to be careful (not in thought police way). If you have something tossed out into the public arena, it doesn't at all mean it can't be humorous or touch subjects that are going to trigger arguments, but for something like technical documentation it is reasonable to just make sure it's neutral. I'd love if most documentation was well written, skilful prose that exposed the authors own opinions but I'm also aware that's not appropriate for most people. If you are addressing a public audience, often need to meter what is said. I think this is all beyond ridiculous, that the person used Twitter to make what looks like a completely baseless arument and accusations, worded in such a way that sounded authoritative and designed to encourage a pile-on, but whatever, careful when talking about politics at work Other commenters have focussing on "woke" and "SJWs" etc., and I think that's a chimera, particularly because it goes the other way just as much*. Maybe it's just the birthing spasms of people learning to deal with this form of communication. Here's a person on Twitter who has [deliberately?] misunderstood the intent of another person's writing, then written a screed about some issues that upset them even though those issues weren't present in the text. And it's all very susceptible to manipulation by people with specific agendas -- the tendency is to broadcast rather than communicate (I'm doing that at the minute, I'm writing this down as ideas occur to me, and I've kinda ceased responding to your comment), and two things get confused. * as a current example, see "cancel culture" in UK universities and the education secretary's (and by extension the government's) response to something that is almost completely fictional. That's heavily social media driven, by people shouting about it.