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Re:Amazon threatened to fire employees for speaking out on c... by tengbretson on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:48PM (#21940259)
Not at all. This is the "adhere to the agreed upon decorum of negotiation or get treated like the child you seem so keen to act like" argument.
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Re:Amazon threatened to fire employees for speaking out on c... by uoaei on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:58PM (#21940360)
The concept of "decorum" has historically been used as suppression from above of deviations from the status quo. Particularly to shut up women's movements, branding them as "hysterical" and "bitchy".
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Re:Amazon threatened to fire employees for speaking out on c... by deogeo on Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:06PM (#21940443)
And corporations are those who decide what the "agreed upon decorum" is.
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