Your language when discussing issues like this has changed over time. It`s become much more polarized and angry. I usually find your posting pretty reasonable and informed. I'm surprised to see you using phrases like "SJW hippie fucktards" and "libtards".
Of course it has. Trump effect. Before I am a anything else...I am a reactionary. My rhetoric scales to the escalation of its proportion and weight within the larger political sphere. SJW's have built their identity around me as an "other", a white male, and not
any "other", but an "other" who everyone else is free to blame, criticize, and show contempt, but who cannot be allowed to say anything in his own defense or interests without being personally impugned for bad moral character. They have done this despite that their entire philosophy is predicated on this notion that the "other" is bad. Turns out that's not what they meant. They only mean that if you're a minority of some kind and your median worth isn't up to the white average. If you're white, male, and a legal citizen of the United States, no other statuses which quality you as a minority are recognized.
This all spun out from Trayvon Martin. That was the stone that set the ripple. Next thing I know it has reached a fever pitch: a
Reefer Madness level of idiocy in my own time, and major corporations like Disney were leading the way! Trump trolled all these people into showing me their true face, and it was pretty scary, dude. They fucking hate me, and what's worse, they feel that they are
entitled to their hatred; that it is righteous. I really can afford no better term than this for SJW's: fucktard.
That's what you have to be to embrace that mindset. I don't think I saw a single position assumed that wasn't self-contradictory or later reneged on. Consummate hypocrisy. That's how you get dipshits like Colin Kaepernick as political leaders when he didn't appear to even know who Pol Pot was or how Fidel Castro treated gays when #BLM was started as a pro-LGBT movement by three gay black women.
I'm not even sure employees all need to be treated equally. There are just too many variables involved in situations as complex as racism, sexism, nationalism, and a lot of other -isms were all dealing with right now. I would definitely discipline my staff differently based on their age, experience, and what their attitude was towards their error.
And therein you just laid the foundation allowing for "second employee" status at work: such as the women endure where you are. This is how the real world works, and we all know it, because it's rational, but we all agree that it isn't necessarily how it
should work. That's why we strive to treat everyone equally even if they aren't of equal value or character. Idealism and reality must converge.
You work in a male-dominated industry. Go work in a female-dominated one for a while. Majorities always rule. That's life.
You are correct that we both think Manveer should have been fired. I'm more just pointing out that the, less vigorous, discipline white people have received in silicon valley by your account gets flipped around in other industries.
Not enough. Quick googling shows that women make up less than 15% of construction industry jobs in Canada and about 5% of trades. The ones we do have are often, just like in other industries, in clerical and administrative roles. Accounting, travel/flight management, a few in safety. Among the limited number that are involved in the straight technical work like I am, attitudes are...regressive to put it politely. If my superiors and the craft guys treated me the way they do women, or spoke about me the way they do about First Nations people, I would probably quit in short order.
Just to be perfectly clear, I don't really think he should be fired for that.
I just think it's outrageous that non-whites aren't being fired for proportional rhetoric. Either it's both, it's neither, or it's racism. Simple as that.
