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>Again, there’s probably some important conversation to be had around politics in the workplace but it’s really challenging to have a constructive conversation
by Nicksil 5y ago
>Again, there’s probably some important conversation to be had around politics in the workplace but it’s really challenging to have a constructive conversation or debate when you plant your flag on one end of the political spectrum and tell the story from that biased reference point.
Your comment lacks supporting information and attempts to paint an entire political ideology with an overly broad, vague brush. Such comments do little to improve the quality of current discourse and are borderline polemic.
>The author is clearly trying to paint BLM as responsible for the property damage, which has been widely debunked.
This may be true, but you've provided no information to support your claim. What claims, specifically, have been debunked and by whom?
>It goes on and on reiterating the right-wing perspective of 2020 in an attempt to defend the data scientist.
"The right-wing perspective" is such a broad characterization and, as such, almost completely useless in this context. To which of the many perspectives of the right wing (conservative) political ideology do you refer?
You mention how challenging it has become to have a constructive conversation or debate on these topics -- and I largely agree -- but, with genuine respect, your comments here aren't constructive and contribute more to the challenge than the solution.
- awb 5y agoIt’s a long article and I don’t care to go point by point. If you think the author is presenting an unbiased argument, there’s probably little I can do to change your mind. But as someone who’s searching for the injustice in this employee’s termination, I didn’t like how they went down the “blue bubble” checklist of BLM, white privilege, etc. in an exasperated undertone like: “Could you believe what these liberals at Reuters believe?” and “Can you believe this poor guy was fired for daring to have a different opinion?” If you want me to have sympathy for this individual, tell me what he did and why it wasn’t a fireable offense per his employee contract/handbook. Instead the author is trying to poke at culture war points to win hearts while ignoring our minds. Or if the employee contract / handbook is the problem, then focus on that.
- awb 5y agoFYI, here’s the author’s Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Rufo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Rufo > Christopher F. Rufo (born August 26, 1984)[1] is an American conservative activist. So yeah, I’d say he’s biased. The article reads like an activist wrote it: little to no substance and tons of half-developed thoughts trying to appeal to people’s outrage.
- civilized 5y agoThis is what happened: 1. Kriegman wrote a post critical of BLM. 2. He vetted it with HR and the head of DEI and incorporated their feedback. 3. He was harassed in a disgraceful and racist fashion on internal social media. 4. He complained about the harassment to his superiors via email after being banned from said internal social media. 5. He was fired. All of this is documented on Kriegman's Substack with direct quotes from primary sources.