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In the responses I read through on twitter, no one accused him of racism. People were upset that in the wake of a tragedy he seemed to only care about getting b
by px43 5y ago
In the responses I read through on twitter, no one accused him of racism. People were upset that in the wake of a tragedy he seemed to only care about getting blue votes, which is pretty insensitive. Also, just like you said, he's doing fine now.
The claim that tweets are ruining lives gets repeated over and over again, but it's a complete myth. It's a conflation of actual actual racists and nazis getting outed and ostracized, and people getting mildly called out for doing something dumb, but those are never the same people.
- salt-thrower 5y agoPerhaps "life ruining" is an exaggeration but losing your job for discussing the effectiveness of different protest tactics is an insane knee-jerk reaction made by the people who fired him. He clearly agreed with the movement and ostensibly wanted to help it be as effective as possible. > in the wake of a tragedy he seemed to only care about getting blue votes That's a baseless statement. I would argue that caring about getting votes means he cared about trying to actually help the movement capitalize on its energy at a critical moment. Right or wrong, if people can't even discuss data-driven strategies for your movement without being shamed and ostracized, your movement is dead in the water.
- telotortium 5y agoI would never consider getting fired over a tweet as a trivial matter, but he is fortunate to be doing well. Who do you think was properly fired/ostracized for tweets?
- px43 5y agoThe Rosanne thing was pretty great. https://time.com/5294313/roseanne-cancelled-abc/ https://time.com/5294313/roseanne-cancelled-abc/