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If I find out my coworker is a Nazi, then I'm going to be extremely uncomfortable around them even if they don't say Nazi shit at work. What if they're my boss

If I find out my coworker is a Nazi, then I'm going to be extremely uncomfortable around them even if they don't say Nazi shit at work. What if they're my boss? How can I trust them to treat me fairly, when they very literally support the genocide of me and my family? Why do you think that if someone — again, very literally — wants to murder me, that won't affect the way they treat me or discuss me when I'm not around?

rgoulter 4y ago
Heh. I react the same way. "It's good to be tolerant." "Even of Nazis!?". I heard a nice proverb the other day: "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down just to feel its warmth". Seems pretty human to be afraid of being left out. The most impressive thing I've seen in this regard has been: https://theoryofenchantment.com/ https://theoryofenchantment.com/ I like its principles: 1. Treat people like human beings, not political abstractions. 2. Criticize to uplift and empower, never to tear down or destroy. 3. Root everything you do in love and compassion.
dubswithus 4y ago
If the worker has swastikas on his FB page fire him immediately and inform the FBI. I think what we are discussing here is more nuanced in nature. As in someone has an opinion on issue of the day and someone else feels that political issue defines them. It could be homelessness, taxes, or something else. If someone interrogates me about a political topic I might tell them my opinion or I might tell them I haven't thought about it. Of course someone may get very very angry about the latter.
- jakelazaroff 4y ago
  We’re not really talking about more nuanced things. I know “Nazis” is a logical extreme, but we do have a bunch of them around and they do really support my murder. When I say “I”, “me” and “my” in that context, I do mean “I”, “me” and “my”. The most common example of what we’re talking about is LGBTQ+. It’s essentially a mainstream conservative position to try to legislate trans people out of existence, for example. That’s “nuanced” in the same way that slavery was “nuanced” 150 years ago — it‘s clear what’s right and what’s wrong, but there are a lot of bigots going to bat for the wrong side.
- Hasu 4y ago
  > If the worker has swastikas on his FB page fire him immediately and inform the FBI. In the United States, it isn't illegal to be a Nazi, so I don't know why you would contact the FBI or what you expect they would do about it.

rgoulter 4y ago

Heh. I react the same way. "It's good to be tolerant." "Even of Nazis!?". I heard a nice proverb the other day: "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down just to feel its warmth". Seems pretty human to be afraid of being left out. The most impressive thing I've seen in this regard has been: https://theoryofenchantment.com/ https://theoryofenchantment.com/ I like its principles: 1. Treat people like human beings, not political abstractions. 2. Criticize to uplift and empower, never to tear down or destroy. 3. Root everything you do in love and compassion.

dubswithus 4y ago

If the worker has swastikas on his FB page fire him immediately and inform the FBI. I think what we are discussing here is more nuanced in nature. As in someone has an opinion on issue of the day and someone else feels that political issue defines them. It could be homelessness, taxes, or something else. If someone interrogates me about a political topic I might tell them my opinion or I might tell them I haven't thought about it. Of course someone may get very very angry about the latter.

jakelazaroff 4y ago
We’re not really talking about more nuanced things. I know “Nazis” is a logical extreme, but we do have a bunch of them around and they do really support my murder. When I say “I”, “me” and “my” in that context, I do mean “I”, “me” and “my”. The most common example of what we’re talking about is LGBTQ+. It’s essentially a mainstream conservative position to try to legislate trans people out of existence, for example. That’s “nuanced” in the same way that slavery was “nuanced” 150 years ago — it‘s clear what’s right and what’s wrong, but there are a lot of bigots going to bat for the wrong side.
Hasu 4y ago
> If the worker has swastikas on his FB page fire him immediately and inform the FBI. In the United States, it isn't illegal to be a Nazi, so I don't know why you would contact the FBI or what you expect they would do about it.