[dragonwriter]

> Isn't it exactly what the author of the memo is saying though?

No, it doesn't seem that way to me.

> People at his work had nothing to say about police brutality against black people, so of course they were racist and supporting it.

No, I think he's saying that them having something to say about every news item imaginable except the one that resonated with him in that way (well, other than their dismissal of the protest) was alienating and distancing independent of what motivated it.

[weberc2]

Maybe I misunderstood the article and the memo, but it felt very much like it was saying, “I have to deal with racists at work, like that time no one supported a political issue that I care a lot about”. Maybe it was more the article’s editorializing rather than the memo itself that gave this interpretation.