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> Are you arguing for a system where employers consider your political views before hiring you? Yes? Such a system already exists and is currently in place in

> Are you arguing for a system where employers consider your political views before hiring you? Yes? Such a system already exists and is currently in place in virtually every country in the world. If I go online and trash talk anyone, that might prevent me from getting hired. Similarly, if I work someplace, and I call my boss a jackass, I might get fired! You're trying to invoke "political" as a sort of shield here. No, it's not just politics. Its called being an asshole. Assholes might be unemployable because that's how human socialization works. Have you met a Nazi that isn't an asshole? Because I haven't. So, there you go.

_heimdall 1y ago
> If I go online and trash talk anyone, that might prevent me from getting hired. > Similarly, if I work someplace, and I call my boss a jackass, I might get fired! Those examples have nothing to do with your specific political views. Both issues there are about how you engages with others and are a reasonable example of why you might cause problems on a team. The specific views you would have shared rudely have nothing to do with the actual problem at hand.
- array_key_first 1y ago
  > Those examples have nothing to do with your specific political views. Yes they do - as I've said, you can't invoke politics as a shield. You can be fired for your beliefs. Politics are a belief. So you can be fired for politics. If you're trying to say that you can just be an asshole in private - sure. If you share your political beliefs, it's no longer private. Most companies don't want to hire people they think are assholes. Ultimately, it's very simple human behavior. I don't want to work with people who suck. You don't either. Okay, so we must discriminate based on politics or other beliefs. Hiring, in it of itself, is just discriminating. We're discriminating based on skills, personality, beliefs, and fit. That's what hiring is. There's only a select couple of things we can't, or shouldn't, discriminate on. Politics isn't one of them. If you think black people need to be exterminated or whatever, there's no gun to my head making me hire you. No, I'm not gonna hire you.
  - _heimdall 1y ago
    Okay, I'll try to take this from the top. > Yes they do - as I've said, you can't invoke politics as a shield. That isn't the issue at hand. You are describing using ones political views against them simply for them holding those views, not someone being an asshole and attempting to justify it as a political act. > Most companies don't want to hire people they think are assholes. Sure, though they would base that on behavioral tendencies rather than a political survey. > Ultimately, it's very simple human behavior. I don't want to work with people who suck. You don't either. Okay, so we must discriminate based on politics or other beliefs. Ultimately you're the one worse off for viewing people this ways. Views and beliefs don't make a person suck, actions do.
    - wahnfrieden 1y ago
      Their politics were expressed as behaviors: proclaiming "I'm a nazi" publicly, taking over leadership of GNAA from Stormfront's administrator, etc. These were not private beliefs that were uncovered through surveying. There was no survey. Or by behavior do you mean that public support of terrorism isn't grounds for an employer to avoid hiring or termination? That the standard for that would be actual terrorist acts?
      - _heimdall 1y ago
        I'm not sure who the they are you're referring to here, sorry. If anyone acted on their opinions and discriminated against someone, or worse, of course an employer could consider that. The whole conversation here, though, was whether someone's beliefs alone are enough to discriminate against them in a hiring process. My argument has been that beliefs or opinions shouldn't be discriminated against, but actions are fair game.
        wahnfrieden 1y ago
        This thread is under my post about Cf employing a Nazi activist. I don’t want to name them here because their CEO targets people online who mention them. You can look it up but their X account has been wiped so you have to dig just a little

_heimdall 1y ago

> If I go online and trash talk anyone, that might prevent me from getting hired. > Similarly, if I work someplace, and I call my boss a jackass, I might get fired! Those examples have nothing to do with your specific political views. Both issues there are about how you engages with others and are a reasonable example of why you might cause problems on a team. The specific views you would have shared rudely have nothing to do with the actual problem at hand.

array_key_first 1y ago
> Those examples have nothing to do with your specific political views. Yes they do - as I've said, you can't invoke politics as a shield. You can be fired for your beliefs. Politics are a belief. So you can be fired for politics. If you're trying to say that you can just be an asshole in private - sure. If you share your political beliefs, it's no longer private. Most companies don't want to hire people they think are assholes. Ultimately, it's very simple human behavior. I don't want to work with people who suck. You don't either. Okay, so we must discriminate based on politics or other beliefs. Hiring, in it of itself, is just discriminating. We're discriminating based on skills, personality, beliefs, and fit. That's what hiring is. There's only a select couple of things we can't, or shouldn't, discriminate on. Politics isn't one of them. If you think black people need to be exterminated or whatever, there's no gun to my head making me hire you. No, I'm not gonna hire you.
- _heimdall 1y ago
  Okay, I'll try to take this from the top. > Yes they do - as I've said, you can't invoke politics as a shield. That isn't the issue at hand. You are describing using ones political views against them simply for them holding those views, not someone being an asshole and attempting to justify it as a political act. > Most companies don't want to hire people they think are assholes. Sure, though they would base that on behavioral tendencies rather than a political survey. > Ultimately, it's very simple human behavior. I don't want to work with people who suck. You don't either. Okay, so we must discriminate based on politics or other beliefs. Ultimately you're the one worse off for viewing people this ways. Views and beliefs don't make a person suck, actions do.
  - wahnfrieden 1y ago
    Their politics were expressed as behaviors: proclaiming "I'm a nazi" publicly, taking over leadership of GNAA from Stormfront's administrator, etc. These were not private beliefs that were uncovered through surveying. There was no survey. Or by behavior do you mean that public support of terrorism isn't grounds for an employer to avoid hiring or termination? That the standard for that would be actual terrorist acts?
    - _heimdall 1y ago
      I'm not sure who the they are you're referring to here, sorry. If anyone acted on their opinions and discriminated against someone, or worse, of course an employer could consider that. The whole conversation here, though, was whether someone's beliefs alone are enough to discriminate against them in a hiring process. My argument has been that beliefs or opinions shouldn't be discriminated against, but actions are fair game.
      - wahnfrieden 1y ago
        This thread is under my post about Cf employing a Nazi activist. I don’t want to name them here because their CEO targets people online who mention them. You can look it up but their X account has been wiped so you have to dig just a little