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> - Had a conservative senior employee go off about politics on the call discussing the new no politics policy. The article really doesn't tell us whether that
by azangru 6y ago
> - Had a conservative senior employee go off about politics on the call discussing the new no politics policy.
The article really doesn't tell us whether that senior employee just went off on a political tangent for no reason whatsoever, or he was responding to an earlier made political statement that he decided to disagree with.
What the article does suggest is that that contribution by that senior employee was preceded by a discussion of the funny names list that involved the mentioning of the "pyramid of hate". That pyramid is already a political statement and should not, if the company were true to its new policy, have been brought up in the discussion.
- rst 6y agoI'm not sure the context of the Singer's remarks matters much -- they were clearly against the newly announced policy that the meeting itself was about. And as a senior employee and member of the company's leadership, it was more incumbent on him than on others to follow the policy, in order to set the tone and be a good example. (NB even David and Jason seem to have recognized this -- after the meeting, Singer was suspended; he's since resigned, but this is likely the only one of the several recent resignations that was not entirely of the employee's own volition.)
- itsdrewmiller 6y agoThe discussion of the "funny names" list including the pyramid of hate discussion was what led to the "no politics" rule - it didn't happen in violation of it.
- faizmokhtar 6y agoBased on what I followed from Twitter, that senior employee is the one who regularly posted articles from Breitbart to the internal thread that was deleted.