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As much as I disagree with the actions of the Times here, there’s a massive difference between a single private entity deciding to let go of an employee based o
by rhaway84773 4y ago
As much as I disagree with the actions of the Times here, there’s a massive difference between a single private entity deciding to let go of an employee based on a ridiculous justification and having a legal system based on similar ridiculous justifications.
- inglor_cz 4y agoI wasn't claiming any equality between those two, only a similar thought pattern behind them. That said, I wouldn't like to see how a hypothetical country run by the New York Times staff, and thus by proxy by the Twitter mob, would look like. It might be pretty ghastly. For all its faults, the current political system has quite a lot of checks and balances that limit arbitrary decisions and capriciousness of important players, and those limits would likely go out of the window in the new Outrage Republic.