Richard@zachklipp we have no idea if these folks fall in those categories, but if they do they were fools to participate or not to accept multiple offers to walk away before arrest. If your family's health and well being is tied to keeping your job so strongly that COBRA isn't enough, and even more so if your family's visa is, it is insanely irresponsible to take a protest this far (no matter how unfair we might think that is). It's more likely that they thought they would face no consequences at all.
Michael Gruar@richard_merren @zachklipp Some of the people fired weren't even part of the protest, and of the ones that were, a decent portion left as soon as they were asked to leave. Didn't matter.
@mgruar @zachklipp I would join you in comdemnimg them firing people who were not involved in protest or disruption. I'm not sure why you think I or anyone else would not, other than possibly a fanatical belief that anyone who doesn't show ideological purity to everything you ascribe to must therefore disagree with you on everything and be evil. But that would be weird and make you just like a MAGA nut, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you are just making rude assumptions.
@mgruar @zachklipp But I also don't get why people think that protest comes with no risk or price whatsoever. The whole point of protest, and what makes it brave, is that you are willing to trade your job or your freedom to make the statement. If you can spend a day disrupting your workplace and calling your bosses genocidal murderers instead of working and expect to show up the next day and clock in as normal, have you actually risked anything? And why would you even want to return?
@richard_merren @zachklipp Of course it comes with that risk, and the people who stayed there the longest knew the full extent of those risks. But it's not like they're going to just give up the next day - the fight goes on however they can participate, and fighting to be reinstated is just part of that.
@mgruar @zachklipp If you truly believe your company is involved in genocide and you don't walk out the door immediately, what the hell is wrong with you. You at going to return to work and prepare tomorrow's TPS report? You can't honestly believe your company is complicit attempting to violently remove an entire group of people from the face of the earth and then just attend daily scrum and update your team on your coding progress. This is such a ridiculous conversation with unserious people.
@richard_merren @zachklipp I mean, you're ascribing a lot of stuff to what I said - I was just trying to clarify that when we're talking about the people who were fired, some of them weren't part of the protest, some of them left as soon as they were asked to, and a majority were gone before the cops were involved. That's the nuance that gets lost here.
@mgruar @zachklipp Now nuance is important.