It’s similar to presenting technical ideas at work: You can have the best idea ever from a technical standpoint, but if you present it poorly and turn off other people in the process your idea will probably be ignored.
False and inflammatory narratives have consequences. It's not hard to figure out the connection in these cases.
2. Who cares if HR wanted him not to speak up? Their request was illegitimate. This is just bootlicking.
As to 2. -- it wasn't about "speaking up" (privately or verbally) but rather using company networks to do so (that is, spamming company boards with this nonsense). Which is a rather different matter.
2. According to Kriegman's letter to TR management, the internal social media post was reviewed by HR and the head of DEI and approved by the internal moderators. He followed it up with an email complaining about his harassment. It was only after the email that he was fired.
You either have no idea what happened in this story (and support the company anyway) or you're supporting a company for firing someone for emailing a harassment complaint.
As to 2, from his own post:
I was told I was not allowed to use any company communications channels (email, teams, the Hub, etc.) to discuss the attacks I had experienced. Receiving no support from HR, I [did precisely that] and was fired.
There is no evidence that TR did this, but if they did, it would be an egregious violation of civil rights law.
It's astounding to me how you can support this and not be utterly ashamed of yourself.
While it may be difficult to pin down an exact number, what’s clear is that thousands of black people have been murdered as a result of BLM’s falsehoods villainizing the police, and the resultant anti-police sentiment that makes police even more wary of confronting criminal suspects
The thing is, even you want to lend 100 percent credence to the so-called Minneapolis Effect (and not everyone does) -- this isn't what it says. Cassell's argument was based solely on the diversion of police resources, period. It did not attribute the 2021 homicide spike to "BLM falsehoods", "villainization of police", or "anti-police sentiment".
It's just spurious and off-kilter what he's saying (in addition to being inflammatory). On that point, and in a whole bunch of other places in his screed (which I'd rather not dissect right now).
Not that that explains his firing, though. The reason for that is pretty clear:
Receiving no support from HR, I raised the issue with my colleagues and senior leadership over email, for which I was fired.
That is, for expressly violating HR's request not to discuss this (alleged) harassment over company communication channels.