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>> If he can’t differentiate between “negative feedback, delivered abusively” and “negative feedback, delivered forcefully” then he should not be someone involved in this decision-making process.

> Have you ever managed a large team of people? If so, do you think a good manager would really tell people that part of their job is to accept threats of physical abuse?

See this, right here, is exactly the problem: Yes, threats of physical abuse are unacceptable. Nobody here is saying otherwise. Pretending that the presence of unacceptable threats somehow invalidates legitimate criticism, however, just makes you look dishonest.