Re:Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity
by coldtea on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:19AM
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>Is calling my co-workers who are people of colour racial slurs a thought crime?
Probably. Did the Google guy do even remotely that (or the sexist analogous)? No.
>At what point does saying things stops becoming thought crime, and starts becoming 'creating a hostile work environment'? There has to be a point of crossover, somewhere, right?
That would be relevant if I had said that there's no point of crossover.
But my "thought crime" argument wasn't that saying some things can't be "beyond the pale" (which I can agree with).
Rather it was that today some things can't even be discussed openly with rational arguments because people are not allowed to even touch them without automatically being labelled -- however good their intentions are and however sensical their arguments -- or how in accordance to science.
Probably. Did the Google guy do even remotely that (or the sexist analogous)? No.
>At what point does saying things stops becoming thought crime, and starts becoming 'creating a hostile work environment'? There has to be a point of crossover, somewhere, right?
That would be relevant if I had said that there's no point of crossover.
But my "thought crime" argument wasn't that saying some things can't be "beyond the pale" (which I can agree with).
Rather it was that today some things can't even be discussed openly with rational arguments because people are not allowed to even touch them without automatically being labelled -- however good their intentions are and however sensical their arguments -- or how in accordance to science.