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Maybe Everyone Should Just Stop Using Social Media
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A hotel worker posted a rude response to a newspaper columnist's article about online misogyny, calling her a "slut" in a tweet. She posted that tweet in her column. And then she got him fired by going to his employer and asking if they were aware that their employee was making such degrading comments. Should she have done that? She says, and you can say rightly so, that, effectively, by being a misogynist jackass in social media, he got himself fired, but she did play a role. And it raises the question of whether what someone says or thinks in their private life should be grounds for losing their ability to have a job. And it's a gray area: You would never think that someone should be fired for being, say, a liberal or a conservative, but some would say otherwise. And everyone would agree that if an employer discovered that an employee was posting Nazi views, that'd be grounds for firing. Where, then, does the line land? Racism? Misogyny? Sports allegiances? (Sydney Morning Herald)
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