Popular Video Game Distributor Fires Female Employee Over Claims of “Transphobia”

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[–]tiny-brown-mug 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

No, I agree. Something needs to be done here. People have been fired in the US over "offensive" on-line opinions, which is incredibly subjective. Women have been arrested in Europe for saying that men can not be women. It's getting ridiculous.

Maybe have it be very strict; if someone threatens to kill you, physically hurt you, or hurt your family, sure. Prosecute that. If they just have an opinion that you find stupid or ignorant, ignore it and move on with your life. Because this is having real-life consequences, and it's like China's Weibo. Only, according to one user on here, worse.

[–]LyingSpirit472 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Honestly, even that could be a problem, simply because we've passed that road long ago and made it a discourse "having an opinion that is stupid or ignorant is literally the same as if they threatened to kill me, physically hurt me, or hurt my family."

Hell, it may get worse before it gets better...like, I had to read the article because it's so bad that I nearly was convinced "the person complaining hit on her and she said no, so the trans person cried transphobia and got her fired for it"...which I'd bet COULD HAPPEN and work right now.

[–]tiny-brown-mug 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Well, I think that being offended has become equal to being punched or beaten in some people's minds, which tells you how rarely some of these people get off of social media.

But either there need to be some ground rules about what can and can not get a person fired or (my advice) folks just need to get off of social media until things calm down. Because being fired for following Blaire White of all people is just stupid. So what?

I'm already weirded out that typing something into Facebook or Twitter while you're off the clock and sitting on your couch can get you canned. Your social media life and your work life ought to be separate.

[–]LyingSpirit472 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It should have ground rules, but honestly as long as people subscribe to the currently accepted logic of "if something you did causes someone to commit suicide, then it's the same as if you personally murdered them", then this will never happen.

People have to get back to the real fact there of "if someone commits suicide, that's their own fault. They did it, they had free will, they caused it, you didn't cause the death, even if you hand them a cyanide capsule and force them to eat it or you'd shoot them they still chose to take the capsule so you didn't kill them."

[–]tiny-brown-mug 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What gets me is that she was fired for using the platform exactly as it was intended; she followed people she agreed with and was terminated for it. That's ridiculous. I would argue that social media is so broken and weaponized, that there's no sense in being on it.

Just stick to anonymous places like this and maybe some weird, hipster sites like "space hey" or something, or an anonymous blog. Using anything as yourself just seems risky. And I agree, it shouldn't be that way. But it is, unfortunately.

[–]LyingSpirit472 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The problem is that ignores that the people whining, like in this example, are the loudest, whiniest, most tech-obsessed, most terminally online people on the planet. These are the people who truly have nothing else in their pathetic life, and because they have nothing else in life, they can focus their entire purpose in life into finding you and enacting vengeance by any means necessary. No matter how anonymous you are, how many VPNs you use, they're the ones obsessed enough to find the smallest detail, the smallest place you slip up, and if they can't get one the ones obsessed enough to hack your blog's server or your VPN's server to find you and attack.