Labor Attorneys Agree: The Adria Richards Firing Will Be Hard to Defend

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156. so you now are omniscient

and can see into someone's mind to determine if they are really offended or just pretending? How exactly does one acquire such superpowers?

First you blame her for getting him fired, now you complain she didn't report the incident to his company. So which is it that you're mad about?

The information about his previous circumstances at work is the same as the information about all of this stuff. It's been reported online. It may or may not be true.

The reason "I keep trying to inject the post incident comments" is because that is all we know for sure. We don't know with certainty why either were fired or about their work histories. We do know what the public reaction is. I understand your goal is to present only the most narrow information in ways that justify your hatred of this woman while ignoring the context in which this even occurred--a context of widespread sexual harassment and rape, that concerns you so little you can't bother to mention them. You go further and insist I should not mention such comments, evidently because they complicate your narrative of the evil woman.

This incident is only important because of the controversy, including post incident comments. This incident is ALL about the public reaction. The fact we are talking about it on DU makes that clear. HR decisions are made everyday and we don't know about them. What we know is that she has been targeted as evil, and he has been hailed as a victim, with fundraisers in support of him. We know that very few people care at all for her well being and are wringing their hands over a guy caught being a jerk. We know people here continually say Richards got what she deserved, and they say so knowing she has been threatened with rape and murder. We know that many men, and even some women. so hate a woman who dares to shed light on male behavior in the workplace that violates labor law they believe she deserves to be threatened with rape and murder, and some actually believe she should be raped and murdered.

What I have learned through this incident is that hatred of women who dare expose men's behavior is more intense than I could have possibly imagined. I never realized the level of hostility toward women that so many here feel. I never realized how many men and women alike consider EEOC laws unreasonable and would prefer workplaces where they could demean women and people of color because deep down they consider legal equality oppressive. They assert that they should be able to determine what goes on in the workplace, and if that includes insulting women and people of color, those groups better keep their fucking mouths shut or else.

That is exactly what this incident about and which aspects of the story we choose to focus on reveal who our values and who we are.