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Politics should be kept out of the workplace.

>>Grimm1+(OP)
I'm sympathetic to this opinion just for worrying about clashing cultural expectations with co-workers. In communicating ideas in a way what may be obvious to me (because of my culture), it might not always obvious to someone else and easy to mis-interpret.

At best, you're never going to change somebody's mind in a political discussion (you can only change people who are not directly participating), and at worst, there's the risk of being raked over the coils by HR or even losing your job.

>>Grimm1+(OP)
Normally sure, but when politicians are using your platform (paying you) to further their own narratives, it's fair game.

>>purple+E5
That depends on if you are a platform or a publisher.

>>purple+E5
Even still, there are appropriate channels and using a public platform to personally attack someone is a nuclear option that you should expect consequences on.

e.g. government employees initially raise concerns on policy privately, then resign and speak out when the discussions fail.

>>former+f7
"I disagree with what this platform I'm working on allows," is a valid statement an employee can bring up and unavoidably political when in reference to political speech or something that is being used to some political end. A section of some arbitrary law from the 90's doesn't define what an employee can be concerned about.

>>purple+A8
That seems like a fine way to state your political stance on the platform. But as has been brought up in other comments and the article, it is not the manner in which the dismissed employee did it.

>>Grimm1+(OP)
Maybe the workplace should stop spending millions of dollars a quarter on political lobbying, then.

>>purple+E5
Personal politics, and hopefully politics in general, have nothing to do with the policies that result.

>>Grimm1+(OP)
Was a famous IBM motto in the thirties. You dont receive der Fuhrer's "The Merit Cross of the German Eagle with Star", granted to 'honor foreign nationals who made themselves deserving of the German Reich.' by talking bad about political leaders now do you.

IBM commercial from 1934 'Übersicht hollerith lochkarten' https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/06/06/web-of-knowledge/im...

IBM CEO photo-op with the leader https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-cards/2/1...

>>rasz+cf
Honestly I wasn't going to reply to any comments on the thread, but this is so odious and completely stupid I believe I should address it.

Not talking politics in the workplace doesn't mean not taking a stand outside of the workplace it just means you're at work to get work done not talk politics and I as a potential coworker frankly don't want to hear your politics in the workplace and, I'd have no problem letting you know that fact if you act in real life like you post, hyperbolic and unwaranted.

In fact, taking a stand for what you believe in is one of the fundamental rights the US protects and I think you should participate in any protest, march or riot you want to. I just think you shouldn't do it at work, and if you do, for people not to be surprised that it get's you fired at a few places because people don't want you disrupting their business.