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The corporate boot licking of Google after firing the palestine protestors in insane (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why are so many people ok with a world where you have no say in what your employer does, and they can do whatever they want to suit their bottom line?

Though I wonder how much of this is actually corpophilia and how much is people hiding behind it because they don't want to say "I'm glad these people I disagree with got fired".

Here are some threads to show what I'm talking about:

r/technology

r/conservative (though this one feels like cheating)

washington post comments

etc..

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So like, if you were in a restaurant and ordered food, but it never came because a couple of the servers were blocking food from being served because the company wasn't taking a strong stance against abortion, you'd think "these good people are taking a moral stand, good for them! The company better not take any action against them to make sure I get my food!"

Or for that matter, if Google stopped all cooperation with the IDF, the company's Jewish employees could (in fact should) disrupt business because Google was supporting terrorism?

It seems to me that you can only support forms of protest you'd be willing to accept when the other side uses them against you. Basically the golden rule.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure why you think actively working with the IDF is a passive act, but not working with them is actively supporting terrorism, but it undermines any argument you're trying to make

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Makes it easy to dismiss my argument without bothering to think about it, you mean. Just take abortion, then. Or "tax is theft", or right to bear arms, or any of a thousand other beliefs you probably don't agree with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

why yes, having an improper argument makes it easier to dismiss. This isn't like a typo or missed word that you can say I'm trying to weasle out of talking with you, it's a completely skewed perspective on the situation that makes it impossible for us discuss because we'd effectively be having completely different arguments.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

Nice, you avoided having to think on a self-imposed technicality. Real intellectual rigor there.