Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
by verall on Monday November 18, 2019 @10:05AM
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This is the strawman.
Can you give me a link to someone that lost their job for something they wrote 5+ years ago that was actually "edgy" and not, like, grossly insensitive?
The poster I replied to, in a separate common for this article, used blackface as an example. I believe, however acceptable to the majority of people at the time, blackface was always cruel and derogatory.
People respond to images of them doing blackface 20+ years ago with "well it was just a joke and okay back then" and not "back then, our culture felt okay with cruel jokes meant to bring down black people, and by participating, I helped bring down black people"
If you think it was just "okay back then" you're missing the point.
And nowadays 'the room' is becoming the entire world and can include a decade or more into the future.
Today you make an edgy joke that everyone considers hilarious. A decade from now, after the Overton Window has shifted, a recording of you making this joke will become trending on Twitter and you will lose your job.