The thing is, anybody who thinks that workplaces should not be at all authoritarian in how they govern the views, lives, or attitudes of people who work needs to step it the fuck up in a much more comprehensive way. 1/
Nobody needs the hot fucking take about an actress on The Mandalorian because that stuff like all the usual hand-wringing hot-takeism is about a single case and gets buried in talk about all the specifics. 2/
Are you big on the idea that working conditions and the autonomy of workers should be genuinely and consistently respected? That is not about weighing on this tweet or that tweet. It's about things like tenure, worker security, unionization, conditions of labor, contract. 3/
If you are normally a libertarian-ish fellow who is fine with fire-at-will labor standards, you got nothing when anybody gets fired, whether it's because of an errant tweet or because they criticized the boss or because they complained about an unsafe factory design. 4/
On the flip side of things, if you're thinking that workers should be protected ordinarily, don't be rushing into the there-must-be-accountability discourse, because that is not a good place to be. I don't think you're the folks with the biggest problem in the hot take stakes.
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