The guy should have started a movement, or a group, using the points from the guest speaker on why they shouldn't have had that speaker, etc etc... This organization of people holds more weight than an individual. This is the way.
Almost every state now has at-will employment laws. The company doesn't need a reason to get rid of you.
Being "polite" is nice if the person you're talking to is also nice. If the guy wanted to bring attention to the fact he did it very well.
Any means of generating substantive resonance within an org is jealously reserved by those at the top of an organizational hierarchy.
It's a Catch-22, but part of Activist 101. If you aren't drawing ire, getting retaliated against, or getting surveilled by someone, odds are you aren't being a terribly effective Activist.
Which is why we all continue to support our corporate overlords.
Google is known to retaliate in backhanded ways when people take a stance in a way that is allowed, such as Ms Koren in 2022
> Agree to move to São Paulo, Brazil, within 17 business days or lose your job.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240226163002/https://www.nytim...
https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001460684#ut...
I mean Aaron Bushnell could have written angry letters to his representatives, but he didn't. He lit himself on fire outside of the Israel embassy after declaring he would not take part in genocide and screamed "free Palestine" with his dying breath. And because of that, today I am writing about what he had to say.
If you think the correct response to genocide is politically discussing it with management then I don't think you really understand the gravity of the situation.
The being fired is an implicit sign that the people trying to control the collective narrative of the organization feel their grip slipping.
Nothing about screaming in the middle of a meeting is effective. It's just a selfish tantrum. It doesn't change anyone's mind.
> The being fired is an implicit sign that the people trying to control the collective narrative of the organization feel their grip slipping.
Fantasy thinking, pure and simple. Being fired is a sure sign that the employee did something dramatic and pointless, and suffered the consequences.
