Re:Goodbye, Fleets
by salt-thrower on Thursday July 15, 2021 @11:56AM
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Perhaps "life ruining" is an exaggeration but losing your job for discussing the effectiveness of different protest tactics is an insane knee-jerk reaction made by the people who fired him. He clearly agreed with the movement and ostensibly wanted to help it be as effective as possible.
> in the wake of a tragedy he seemed to only care about getting blue votes
That's a baseless statement. I would argue that caring about getting votes means he cared about trying to actually help the movement capitalize on its energy at a critical moment. Right or wrong, if people can't even discuss data-driven strategies for your movement without being shamed and ostracized, your movement is dead in the water.
Re:Goodbye, Fleets
by telotortium on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @07:28PM
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I would never consider getting fired over a tweet as a trivial matter, but he is fortunate to be doing well.
Who do you think was properly fired/ostracized for tweets?
The Rosanne thing was pretty great.
The claim that tweets are ruining lives gets repeated over and over again, but it's a complete myth. It's a conflation of actual actual racists and nazis getting outed and ostracized, and people getting mildly called out for doing something dumb, but those are never the same people.