(May 11, 2018 at 1:55 pm)Joods Wrote:(May 11, 2018 at 10:34 am)henryp Wrote: I like John McCain. But a bit of dark humor in private is a silly thing to fire someone over.
This tattling to the press stuff, where unnamed sources report quotes from private meetings is dumb. The idea that every single thing you say out loud, regardless of context or setting, can be used to fire you is a bit much.
I don't agree in this case. It wasn't justified at all. To mock someone because they are dying from an illness, whether in public or private is ignorant and that staffer should have known better. I doubt she would have been okay with it if it had been someone else saying that about her grandfather.
The only way for anyone to know a joke was made, is if someone tattles. I think people deserve some space to have their own thoughts and sense of humor.
For example, people on this site celebrate/wish for the the deaths of various religious folks and conservative politicians. I think that's fine. If someone took their post, found out who the person that wrote it is, and sent it to their real life boss, and they got fired, I think that's bullshit.
It's just so anti-free speech to think every thing we ever say or put in writing regardless of the intended audience or context can be used to ruin our lives. You can't really call it free speech in that environment.
