It’s hard for me to tell what my readers know. I am Extremely Online, and Twitter tells me about many social trends before people who get their news from Facebook or the evening news learn of them, but I don’t know how long before.
I’ve been leading up—or dancing around, perhaps—this topic in Mob Games (“Mobs have no sense of proportion.”), Justice (“Can we know Justice?”), and The Modern Fallacy (“[W]ithout freedom of thought, no other freedom means a thing.”).
Did you know that it is common in 2020 for someone who has done or said something offensive to lose his job over it?
(Image: History.com.)
And I don’t mean “done or said something at work.” Someone who has done or said something offensive on his personal Facebook account can lose his job over it.
It doesn’t have to have happened recently. Someone who has done or said something offensive at any time in his life can lose his job over it.
It doesn’t even have to be offensive to most people, as long as it is offensive to a loud-enough m…
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