| > I feel like there is a big difference between the scenario at hand and systematic persecution of certain groups of people. What's the difference? Persecution is persecution. > You seem to assign a huge value to keeping a job. It's one of the most important aspects of people's lives. One way of oppressing people is through their employment. What better way is there to intimidate and silence people other than attacking their employment? > From my point of view, that employee actually tried to advance a very hostile political agenda with what he wrote Care to point out where the hostility is? The guy was participating in a google led private forum. Nothing he wrote can be objectively and honestly construed as hostile. > where you need to fight with people over whether you are even biologically capable of doing your job. Pointing out biological differences is science. Saying that perhaps there are biological advantages that kenyans enjoy in long distance running https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/wh... or that tibetans/himalayans are better adapted to high altitude environments http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/07/tibetans-inherited-hi... isn't hostile. To say stating certain biological conditions exist is hostile is a form of anti-science rhetoric that all peoples on all side should be concerned with. > And, no, I would not defend Google for firing somebody for, say, being a lesbian. That's a completely different scenario. You say it is a different scenario but you don't explain why? A muslim company asks their employees to discuss on their private channel on how they could be a better company. A pro-lgbt person says we need more lgbt people in the company. Some muslim employees find it offensive and leaks this out to the media and the muslim media wages a media war against this pro-lgbt person. So they fire this pro-lgbt person. How is it any different? All you are saying is that you just want your side to be protected. The "others" deserve no protection or empathy. That is very worrying. |