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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by nerflad on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:47PM (#14953494)
> "If they put 'make america great again' or 'death to white men' posters up on the bulletin boards at work in the break room, yeah, they'll fire them too."

Are you saying that supporting a presidential candidate is tantamount to "death to white men"? Yes, the candidate in question is abhorrent, but come on. Those statements absolutely don't carry equal weight.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by kevingadd on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:51PM (#14953546)
> Will they fire every Trump voter and every hardcore feminist now too?

If you read the post I was replying to, it would be obvious why I chose those two examples.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by nerflad on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:25PM (#14953814)
My point was, it's not a good set of examples, since they are so unlike each other. Unless you mean certain organizations actually consider them equivalent.
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