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by Saline9515 197 days ago
In case of a blog, it's separated from the professional life. The colleague can just behave normally and avoid political topics.

It's normal to hinder freedom of speech, up to a certain level in the context of the company: I would not like to be teached about Marxism-Leninism by the barista making my coffee.

It also allows people to separate professional and private life, just line sexuality: if you like latex parties, you can enjoy them without having to tell everyone or coming at work wearing latex. It allows collaborators of different sensibilities to work together. Your supremacist colleague may even then work with non-white people and find them nice and competent!

Last, you are projecting ideas: I'm sure that many white supremacists are pro-free speech, having experienced censorship. You clearly aren't.

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> In case of a blog, it's separated from the professional life.

I mean, it might be, but a lot of bloggers don't do this.

> Your supremacist colleague may even then work with non-white people and find them nice and competent!

I feel like maybe you're not understanding what, exactly, white supremacy is.

> I'm sure that many white supremacists are pro-free speech, having experienced censorship.

Right, no, the ideology is fundamentally anti-free-speech and anti freedom in general. Believing some humans are inferior and deserve less rights just works like that.

You don't have to defend white supremacists, they're doing just fine politically and socially. Better than the people they believe inferior, I'd say.

> You clearly aren't.

Yeah yeah whatever, go explain to someone else how oppressed white supremacists are.