>confidentiality agreement It's not about legality, it's about the expectation of privacy. Email is by default private. Here's how I see this: Tom emails Kyle

>confidentiality agreement It's not about legality, it's about the expectation of privacy. Email is by default private. Here's how I see this: Tom emails Kyle about a job. Kyle turns it down because of his discomfort with the firm. Tom asks what he's talking about. He says "that one joke you once made" and immediately posts the whole thing on the internet to get internet points from his internet friends for fighting the man or some other misguided emotion. >I fail to see how you can be ignorant about rape in the same way that I fail to see how you can be ignorant about murder or genocide. I'm not talking about rape. I'm talking about the cultural import and context of rape jokes. That it's a topic that can potentially trigger rape victims and cause more hurt than intended is a function of our current social circumstances, and that kind of sensitivity comes with education. Some people don't have that education, and it's okay. They aren't bad people necessarily. Again, you don't know any good people who make bad jokes? I can't believe that. >More generally, if they didn't think it was offensive in the first place, why did they delete the joke? But that's the point! It is offensive, and they did the right thing by deleting it and apologizing. What's the beef now? I don't expect mental erasure, but the other extreme of making a blacklist of everyone who ever made a joke that made you uncomfortable isn't right either. Give people a chance to better themselves and you will have a better world. If you just keep shaming offenders till the end of time how do you ever expect them to see the light?