Post by ck4829 on Mar 18, 2022 8:43:57 GMT
Taking note of those who scream about "cancel culture" and comparing, contrasting, and highlighting contradictions of firing people for being gay.
Firing an employee for being gay is the closest behaviour fitting the words "cancel culture". And it's the behaviour this religious discrimination law is set to protect.
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For decades, people were fired for being gay or pregnant or Jewish or for simply wanting their workplace to be safer. Some still are.
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Complaints about the excesses of “cancel culture” are studded with sloppy anecdotes of innocent students who said the wrong thing or employees who lost a job over an ill-formed joke. Large scale change, like earthquakes, can cause damage, but in almost every instance these cancel culture casualties are overblown, hyped to provide some cushion of latitude for major platform holders scrambling to preserve their hard-won capital. Until the Supreme Court outlawed the practice in 2020, people were still losing their jobs just for being gay. Not one of the Republicans hoarding Dr. Seuss books this weekend gave a damn when Colin Kaepernick was banned from an entire industry. Virtually none of the people screeching about cancel culture have an ounce of concern for freedom of speech. They are scrambling to insulate themselves, and their investments, from change.
-https://www.politicalorphans.com/cancel-culture-panic-is-hilarious/
cococo.pbworks.com/w/page/145357068/Cancel%20Culture%20vs%20Firing%20people%20for%20being%20gay
Firing an employee for being gay is the closest behaviour fitting the words "cancel culture". And it's the behaviour this religious discrimination law is set to protect.
-
For decades, people were fired for being gay or pregnant or Jewish or for simply wanting their workplace to be safer. Some still are.
-
Complaints about the excesses of “cancel culture” are studded with sloppy anecdotes of innocent students who said the wrong thing or employees who lost a job over an ill-formed joke. Large scale change, like earthquakes, can cause damage, but in almost every instance these cancel culture casualties are overblown, hyped to provide some cushion of latitude for major platform holders scrambling to preserve their hard-won capital. Until the Supreme Court outlawed the practice in 2020, people were still losing their jobs just for being gay. Not one of the Republicans hoarding Dr. Seuss books this weekend gave a damn when Colin Kaepernick was banned from an entire industry. Virtually none of the people screeching about cancel culture have an ounce of concern for freedom of speech. They are scrambling to insulate themselves, and their investments, from change.
-https://www.politicalorphans.com/cancel-culture-panic-is-hilarious/
cococo.pbworks.com/w/page/145357068/Cancel%20Culture%20vs%20Firing%20people%20for%20being%20gay