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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by mancerayder on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @07:10PM (#24782791)
Workers have to work with other workers. If workers have to deal with overhearing other workers preaching about Trump or against Trump, against or for one race or another, maybe a gender argument, maybe whether God exists or abortion is naughty - that's a shit environment. We get paid to code or sell or manage, not to hear opinions being spewed across the room.

So it is different, despite your snarky comment. A company lobbying doesn't affect your 40, 50 hr work week.

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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by harry8 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @07:23PM (#24782920)
"Yeah the game was terriffic, huh? Racism, sure, I'm against it."

We're banning that from the workplace now? Land of the free!

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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by vore on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @07:20PM (#24782893)
If my coworkers were harboring opinions being against certain races (i.e. racism) that they simply didn't say out loud, I would certainly feel deeply uncomfortable being in their presence, and that absolutely affects my work week. Telling people to just not talk about it doesn't really make that any better: in fact, it probably makes it worse.
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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by DoofusOfDeath on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @07:35PM (#24783020)
Just for clarification of your point:

In the scenario you describe, how would you be aware of their racism if they didn't discuss it at work?

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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by vore on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @07:42PM (#24783061)
I wouldn't, and that would be much more insidious if I was some race they weren't particularly fond of.
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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by webmaven on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:40AM (#24785004)
> In the scenario you describe, how would you be aware of their racism if they didn't discuss it at work?

Well, I suppose if there were no minority employees in that workplace, it would be kind of hard to tell, but otherwise, it often isn't that hard. And if you are in the minority, you almost certainly can tell since, in a thousand tiny subtle ways, you're constantly being told you don't belong.

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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by webmaven on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:19PM (#24832592)
Perhaps the minor amount of snark here was uncalled for, but I don't think the downvoting was appropriate.

Anyone who thinks racism is only apparent when it is being spoken is plain wrong.

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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by mancerayder on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @09:57PM (#24783966)
If they didn't say it out loud how would you even know, and what does it mean to harbor feelings? You read their diary? Saw it in their eyes? Used your intuition?

Aren't you worried you could be wrong if that's the standard, or someone could use that standard against you and be wrong?

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