On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 31, 2014 20:08 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: On the sickness of our community by blujay
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

> You're unfairly discriminating against people in the workplace because of their personal, political opinions. This makes you a bigot and a hypocrite.
CEOs in the US have amazing power to discriminate based on personal or political opinions. For example, it's totally legal for a CEO in most states to walk down the parking lot and fire everybody with an Obama sticker on their car.

So I think it's fair that the same attitude applies to the CEOs themselves.

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On the sickness of our community

Posted Nov 1, 2014 18:13 UTC (Sat) by blujay (guest, #39961) [Link] (1 responses)

Interestingly, you didn't deny that you are discriminating against him. It's convenient when the person with whom you vehemently disagree is in a prominent position and you can use that as an excuse to persecute him.

But it's no less wrong to do so. It's opportunistic hypocrisy. It demonstrates that you are not guided by any principles of righteousness, justice, or liberty, but will merely do whatever is convenient to further your agenda, even if it means contradicting yourself and violating another person's freedoms.

History has truly shown that such attitudes lead to and are part of oppression, fascism, and mob rule--truly on the wrong side of history. Utterly shameful.

What goes around comes around. However, most narcissists can't see past their own lifetimes, and wouldn't care if they could. So if they drive the bus over a cliff, it's fine, because they'll die of natural causes before the bus hits the ground--because it's a long, long way down. Then it's not their problem anymore.

On the sickness of our community

Posted Nov 1, 2014 22:15 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

'Discriminate'? Nope. He has exactly the same rights as everybody else.

For example: "The right to be fired without any reason for political beliefs".