KevinKeene
Banned
I've got news for you: being an asshole WILL ABSOLUTELY get you fired. It happens ALL THE TIME. Most companies will rather hire someone with decent experience who has great people-skills over an expert with is a complete asshole. How well you do your job doesn't matter if people can't work with you.
I won't disagree that it can be a complex issue. I think "I'm against abortion, it should be forbidden" is much more reasonable than saying stuff like people from third-world countries are dysfunctional/have low IQs though (which is one of the things he said). I think the abortion debate can have arguments on both sides that aren't entirely driven by hate/ignorance which I think is what makes it fairly ok in the "controversial" space.
I think refusing to address a trans person by their correct gender might also be a problem though. I mean, it's kind of like I tell you "hey my name is John" and you go "no, I'll call you Sue because I don't want to call you John." Kind of an unnecessary dick move. What if a client of your is trans? Are you going to risk losing that client because you don't want to address the trans person by their correct gender? In that case I can see the company firing you for being a dick.
So much to reply to
1.) Assholes can have people skills, too. I wasn't talking about some unsociable skinhead, someone like that wouldn't have gotten the job in the first place.
2.) I don't see the analogy of adressing someone with a different name fit to not using the 'correct' pronoun. The former makes an odd, arbitrary choice, while the latter simply recognizes that (healthy) biology is absolute.
3.) The AfD loves to use ambigious statements. They probably want to shoot immigrants, no veto here. But they worded it so that it can be seen as 'if current law was applied, we'd have to shoot them'. Which is legally correct, except fuck killing people, you know.
4.) Coming back to the whole 'being fired' discussion: My problem is that our society puts too much focus and importance on working, on our jobs. Fortunately, automization will eventually fix that, but it's still ways to go. So in that current environment where people's lives depenf on their job, I staunchly believe that one shouldn't get fired over private social media activities. Terrible people like resetera-users fail to realize the damage their harassment campaigns are actually doing. For them it's a public comment, attacking someone and feeling good about themselves for 'making the world a better place', then lean back and continue with their comfy designer job. For the effected party, it is doom. Their life is in shambles, their reputation forever ruined, and they're looking at complete financial ruin, with everything that pertains. That doesn't make the world better. It just causes more misery. It's akin to applying physical violence to someone who only used insulting words. It's not right.