Another career amputated
Another one summarily fired for crimethink.
By “parted ways with Sasha” they mean “fired Sasha for crimethink.”
What terrible thing did she say?
Does that look like a firing offence to you? To anyone? Really?
It does to this unpleasant inquisitor:
Filth indeed.
Another data point for the chart “Why we know that people don’t really think that trans women are women”.
Because nobody gets fired from a publishing company for thinking that women can’t write good books. Nobody punishes men with death and rape threats for having gender-critical opinions. It is only the men who say they are trans who can whine that something is unfair, and immediately get their way – and get a woman punished.
The only people who get their every whim catered to, and their every whine addressed, are men. Spoiled princes.
If this had been overheard in a pub vs stated on Twitter would she have been fired? I remain unable to see why saying something on your personal social media account is a firing offence, even if the thing said is problematic. And tweets are easy to fake, possible to delete and send into the ether. Yes, a skilled hacker could possibly retrieve them but it’s an awful lot of work. I can’t imagine a company making the effort to track down the validity of the accusation with evidence etc.
You are not your employer. You are an individual who, unless your job is marketing or public relations, is not an avatar for said employer. If you work for McDonald’s and in your personal time, tweet “I hate all the disabled people coming into McDonald’s” then that’s your opinion. However, “I work at McDonald’s and I hate it because there are always disabled people there”, now you’re representing the company.
Now you are obviously a terrible person, but the first example should not be a firing offence, as long as this awful bigot is not using that bigotry against the disabled people.
That might sound awful, but the case Ophelia describes is pretty much the same. Now, if you live in an at will state like mine, sucks to be you because you have no comeback. But it’s a ridiculous standard to insist that everyone you employ holds this exact same beliefs and opinions as you do (looking at you, Hobby Lobby).
There’s a quote in Francis Wheen’s How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World about how postmodernism came to be such a force in academia, and it struck me when I read it that it applies equally to todays transgender movement.
I can’t lay my hands on the book right now, but the quote was, as near as dammit: [It] began as a reaction, became a dogma and evolved into a religion. It even had its evangelists, its high priests, and its inquisitors.
I recall that as I read that my first thought was ‘Nobody expects the Tranish Inquisition!’
Thanks, AoS. I just added that book to my birthday wish list.
What do they mean, “gatekeep trans authors?” She’s an assistant agent for a literary agency, not someone evaluating whether or not someone qualifies for hormones and surgery.
I assume they’re imagining that anyone who doesn’t believe that TWAW would violate all professional standards in order to prevent trans people from doing anything. Trans authors will not get published, regardless of topic and quality of work. Trans teachers would not get hired, again regardless. And if a trans person needed dry cleaning or house repair or a hair cut — well, transphobes are just like racists. The answer is always “no.” Cancelled.
Funny how all the evidence for this happening seems to point in the other direction. “Gatekeeping “ indeed.
The nasty pronoun people who got Sasha fired are the same ones Kamala Harris is allied with in her twitter bio, along with everyone else who promotes this rubbish by blindly submitting to their devisive agenda.