[jokethrowaway]

It depends on the environment. We had two "social crisis" like this in my workplace. One was a triggered by an innocent remark about someone not seeing the wage gap between women and men in his personal circle and then mentioning there are too many variables to say a wage gap exist.

The person got massively and publicly shut down by leaders in the company who wrote lengthy messages about it and explained holding this belief wasn't acceptable in this company and rationalised the reaction with other leaders saying it was a way to send a message. They didn't manage to get the guy fired (but they tried!) and he left after a few months of radio silence.

Sure thing, nobody else dared to say something about it but the victim got messages of support by tons of people afraid to speak up.

My opinion is that, given it's a company's private space, the company could limit freedom of speech and ban public political discussion to avoid this scenario - still, seeing people trying to force their dogma on other people was shocking.

[matheusmoreira]

Think as you like, but behave like others.

https://medium.com/@alexanderemmanual/law-38-think-as-you-li...

[CryptoPunk]

Laws put in place by the political left open companies that don't shut down this kind of speech to sex and race discrimination lawsuits.

The utterances of these kinds of statements within a workplace can be used by a lawyer to paint the corporate culture as one that is sexist/racist/etc.

After Google fired the engineer, Damore, for his statements criticizing the discriminatory nature of affirmative action, and potential biological differences being the cause of the disparity between the number of men and women in computer science and engineering, the company actually received open letters from leading Democrats demanding that such an event never transpire again.

It's approaching something like a state ideology, with billions of dollars at stake in its tenets being upheld and not questioned.